Effort to make a post > effort to comment
this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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I'm one of those weird assholes that usually prefers the process of looking things up. It can be frustrating now that there's no fully reliable search engines what with the way sites pull seo bullshit, but it's still mostly an enjoyable process once I get the search right and start digging.
Plus, as I'm sure you've noticed, a big part of what I enjoy about threaded forums is the ability to fully express an idea. Doesn't matter if it's answering a question, just free form thinking on the screen, or whatever else spurs the idea. It's the process of expressing the idea that's the most fun to me.
So there's rarely anything I want to ask that isn't very need specific.
Instead, I scroll through seeing what other people are thinking, and respond when inspired to do so, or when I think I can contribute or help in some way. Or, you know, occasionally be a grumpy old bastard because I'm a grumpy old bastard and sometimes I can't stop myself.
Luckily, I have led a rather busy life, so it's easy to find posts and such to tell stories or give information I've accumulated. That comes with the "old" party of grumpy old bastard lol. I packed a shit ton of living into my twenties and thirties, and it pays off in the ability to have something that relates to damn near any post.
I have a certain amount of anxiety about posting, it feels like being the center of attention. Commenting doesn't feel the same way.
Fortunately I love attention
It's a relatively small community. Under 1k users; just keep it alive. I'll keep in mind to drop a question here next time
We'd love to hear it!
Because I am a mere commenter that relies on you to provide stuff to comment on. Jokes aside, I wish I could also think of interesting or silly things to ask and help keep the content going. But I'm pretty quiet and reserved in the real world, so it doesn't come naturally unless I've got something I really need to say. I've also got memes and stuff in my phone but a lot of them are probably lifted from here on Lemmy these days, so I don't want to repost. Need to lurk on Facebook or something to steal content.
I get most my memes from insta I find facebook unusable nowadays
I don't even have an insta account but maybe it's a good idea to take a look there. Facebook is really bad these days, although I do follow a couple of semi decent feminist and neurodivergent pages there I could steal content from. I know, for shame that I'm still on it but it's the only way to keep in touch with certain people. And I only really go there every 6 months to a year or so (and it's worse every time).
Yep it's utter white now. I remember when it was cool....
It was pretty cool for a while. I enjoyed the discussion sections on pages and poking was either fun or annoying depending on who lol.
Ah the days of poking...
I know everything already, so I don't have any questions to ask.
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I would, but I seem to inspire a lot of people to ignore me (something I can see you can relate to) due to my history, the community's history, and the amount of places I'm barred from, an issue also shared by the rule enforcers here to a multiplied extent, which one might say also decreases the traffic, though nobody seems to have been bothered to notice, even those who are like the founder and care more about the results than the lead-up.