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How do you deal with being the only one posting in a community (aka "shouting into the void")? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not gonna lie, sometimes it feels a bit lonely. I try to post on a few generic communities

Sometimes I can be the only poster for a few weeks. Makes me requestion the relevance of posting at all. I started posting to [email protected] recently just because at least my posts are widely seen, and other people post there as well.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I posted some stuff and ran into this plus my threads not getting federated to certain places. And 3 weeks later they are still the newest posts on those communities (Kbin's ps1graphics and blender communities, note that Kbin communities seem to not use the community link format).

I had some technical questions and a roadblock too, but they are niche so I just... didn't deal with it. Maybe there's an instance out there that'd fit (for me, someone who dabbles in art and programming while not really being those things), but also I doubt it particularly because I'm only interested in a semi-niche programming language. Audience vs niche seems like an unwinnable balance.

I've thought about posting to a more popular lemmy.world community for the next thing I make as it would probably get more of a response, but probably not answers so that wouldn't matter since the stuff I made so far was just random objects. Well, I guess getting answers for Blender questions is more likely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hello,

Welcome here! Did you try [email protected]? Seems reasonable active, and with a 2.5k userbase.

But yes indeed, it's sometimes difficult to find the audience for a niche topic, general topics do better on average

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I haven't, the other community I was thinking of is !artshare which has 3.94K subs.

My style is low-poly with vertex colors (no textures). My Blender questions weren't really that important, the roadblock I am having is trying to use said models in a specific framework (or maybe the very specific bindings I'm using) just not loading vertex colors (I am not sure if there is 'help' here, aside from just fix it).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Artshare is quite active, I would give it a try