3w ago

To "drip" versus to "roundup," is that the question? (i.e., how to best distribute posting/image content across the FV & Lemmy-sphere)

Okay, there's a frustrating backstory that I won't bore y'all with, but in this case, my Lemmy-mates have suggested that I should share image-content more slowly, rather than do roundups like this.

To explain: I personally hate withholding content when I have a load of some resource to share. I feel like a fraud, an a-hole, a userer, and all that stuff...

Yet I've been told repeatedly that it's better to just (in my words, 'act like a drone') drip the content, and yes, it's not hard to see the logistical point, but... bah.

I guess, end of the day, I always like to include something interesting about my posts, and it would be harder to do that via the "drip" posting method, which... pretty much circles back to why I post the way I do, which is to aim for roundups.

Bah... Baa-Ram-Ewe!

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In terms of growing a community, I think it is usually better to 'drip' than to to 'dump'. It gives more chances for a post to hit the top of /all, and it keeps the community fresh in the minds of users.
That being said, 'dripping' requires more work to space out the posts, and I don't always practice what I preach...

I think most people's solution is to use some kind of scheduling tool to rate-limit the drip as individual posts. I guess the argument is that since Lemmy is small enough, those who browse by new get overwhelmed by back-to-back posts to the same community.

I prefer the drip-feed as a regular user. Seeing a big influx of posts in one day from a community I follow tends to drown out other communities I follow, and feels intimidating. I've currently signed up to see bunnies, owls, foxes, and snakes. If I see mostly snakes at the expense of foxes, owls, and bunnies I'm not going to be too thrilled. (In practice, this doesn't happen, !snakes@lemmy.world isn't that active, if you like snakes please post! I do whenever I run across some pleasing snake content in my regular internet browsing, maybe I should put more effort into explicitly finding snake and fox stuff again…)
I am more willing to let it go if I followed some giant community with lots of subscribers, because what did I expect, a big community is going to have lots of people wanting to post stuff. But if it is a small niche…
As a poster trying to keep Lemmy active and as a mod, I find things in bursts. So I break them up with https://schedule.lemmings.world/. Post one thing right now, do all the rest on that scheduler so they come out a couple days from now. That way I still get to "post" all at once—just into the scheduler, which will actually submit the posts in a more spaced out manner for me.
- Hi, Elevator,
  I started using the scheduler last week, and it worked splendidly at the time.
  Trying it again the last few hours, I'm getting "500" errors when trying to put something through. Can you confirm on your end?
  @rikudou@lemmings.world
  
  No 500 errors on my end. What instance was the account you were you trying to schedule from on, and what instance was the community you were trying to schedule a post to on?
- Thanks for the reply, and oolala, that scheduler sounds groovy! Main concerns-- 1) as it needs my ID & PW to login, I'm naturally a bit wary. Do we know how safe this tool is?
  I almost always upload images when I post, and that's led to major problems at this point. For example, Imgur has proved worse than useless in the long run, and some days my own instance (lemm.ee) simply won't accept image uploads.
  So I think I'd need to pre-upload my images somewhere else, but I haven't found the right place just yet. I suppose I might test out Google Drive at some point, but the file-name system is ridiculous. Look at the link at the bottom of my post here: https://lemm.ee/post/53557900
  
  Oh boy. Well at least you can always obscure it with [text to click of a more reasonable length](the super long URL).
- Anything like that for non-.world instances? I was banned from there a while ago and I prefer not to even go there now because it's so toxic and censorship-heavy.
  
  Despite the URL, this is not just a service for lemmy.world. I have also used it with my ani.social account to post on ani.social, no lemmy.world involvement needed. You could probably use this successfully with your lemm.ee account to post on places you are not banned from.

I get yelled at daily for dumping 4 posts at a time. I actually think it's fine tho, and Lemmy is so small, we have to put content out there. Plus I'm doing at the times I'm on Lemmy.
I ain't gonna hold back just because people are tired of seeing my name. They can block me.

if you HATE the withholding, i say follow your instinct and stay true to yourself.

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