I’ve been a chronic lurker on many platforms for my entire life, but the amount I actually contribute on the internet is VERY little. I want to change that, so I thought I’d ask the experts of the internet. What does your engagement with the internet look like? On which platforms, and why? How do you find your communities through the “noise”?
For me personally, I deal with a lot of anxiety sharing myself with internet strangers. I struggle to think anything I would say is valuable, interesting, or hasn’t already been said. Any tips on how to grow confidence and trust that my input has merit, or could be useful to someone?
Thanks for any responses. I’m really enjoying kbin and lemmy (came from reddit) and its the first community that I really want to participate in and help further its success.
Same here! I feel like the problem with Reddit’s established community is that most of them have found an “identity” and developed a “lingo” / “jargon” of their own. Like if you’re not “innit” then it becomes harder to minge then there’s this influx of downvotes making it very hard to wanting to take part without… lurking a shit ton. (like Stack Overflow mentality lol) Feels like threading thin ice sometimes. With a novel community like this one, where rules are yet to be set in stone, it feels… freer?
I mean, it still is very fun to lurk and digesting new content, but starting up posts on your own can also be a lot of fun. There’s also a lot of bot/stalker behavior in Reddit which might minimize the incentive to be creative. With the smaller fediverse communities (especially closed/invite-only sign ups) it might be easier? I’m just speculating though…
Anyway, I’m happy that you are feeling more at ease being by posting more, keep it up!