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I feel like this entire conversation isn’t productive. You have a talent for putting words in my mouth, and quotes around things I didn’t say.

Real tired of it, so I will no longer be responding here. Have a good one!

Legit, I’ve always loved the idea of orchids, but I know they have a reputation, and I’m… forgetful at best.

You, specifically, admitted you don’t have the energy to do it, and your only evidence you’ve ever tried is, “trust me,” but answering the question of “what do we do to get more people” with the answer of, “post every day and be engaging” isn’t helpful?

This is what I was getting at: communities don’t come from nothing. You’re welcome to stay where they’re pre-built for you but posting endless content is how communities get started.

When I was younger, I was someone who ran a few of those communities myself. If it’s patronizing to say you didn’t try hard enough (while you’re also declaring you, yourself, don’t have the energy to do it) then it should be less patronizing, but still fair, to say… if you don’t want to do it, don’t complain that someone else isn’t doing it for you.

If you don’t want to be on Lemmy, then don’t. Come check back in periodically to see if someone else had the energy to do what you didn’t. It’s fair to say you don’t want to do the work. Whining someone else isn’t doing it doesn’t get it done faster.

because I didn’t try hard enough.

That would be pretty patronizing if I said that, I agree.

What I did say was, you need to start the conversation.

However, now that I’ve looked at your account… unless you have a secondary account to the one I’m replying to now, the whole 21 posts you’ve made over multiple communities, and that being your whole history for a year’s worth of account… maybe I am saying “try harder.” If you want to feel like that’s patronizing, that’s fine.

All the bigger communities on lemmy (like tenforward) happened because first one person posted a lot, every day. And then they were joined by others. And then the community they were in had drama so they moved to tenforward, but my point is, if you want people to talk to you about something, a single post once in a while doesn’t do it. You gotta pump out content, post memes, attract people who want to be part of the conversation. Reply to like, everyone. Be friendly. Be engaging.

You can still do that.

Start the conversation. That’s what we all did, and where these communities got their start.

It’s so weird to me that people are so spoiled today that they feel inconvenienced when there isn’t limitless content in their niche fields of interest being served to them on a platter every single day.

Those of us who remember the before times can tell you that the absolute best of a platform comes before that point. I’m sure it’s lovely getting your full every single second, but the best conversation, the best education, the best introspection comes when you’re allowed a few minutes between stimuli to think.

I feel like “Old woman yells at cloud” but I really feel like our younger folks who crave endless, mindless interaction, don’t know what they miss out on.

I’d like to throw out there that (penis size notwithstanding at all) getting good with hands, mouth, and toys is way, way better than just owning and using a penis. You wanna be fantastic in bed? Max multiple skill trees, not just the one.

Isn’t “devoid of emotion” kind of realism in a story about you being an outsider traveling through space?

I saw all this fuss yesterday and checked on my laptop and sure enough, mine was unchecked.

“Everybody’s record starts somewhere.” If you’re considering doing something illegal, is this worth starting your record? (It’s also used to dismiss someone getting into trouble for the right reason.)

I’m realizing that my previous one sets a bad tone for this, but I had hippie uncles, and we were all taught, “We do not cooperate with the police.” Some of us were recently reminiscing about one of my dead uncles and said, “We do not-!” And the rest of us said, “-cooperate with the police!”

All the rest of them are your typical American South sayings.

She just likes weed.

This is my boy. He scratches all his posts, his scratchers, everything and is very good about it, but at a certain length he’ll do his usual routine where he’ll gently hook the edge of a blanket and lift it, and drop it to ask someone to tuck him in, and the blanket won’t drop.

He also might catch a claw on the sofa or something. Time to clip claws!

Observing a system you’re in and have no control over must be done objectively.

Dammit.

Back to contacts I guess.

Mine has a setting where if a number calls you once, it blocks. If it calls you a second time, it goes through. And it works! I use it all the time.

It was Number Five. Number Five killed my brother.

I was thinking rabies.

A person who looks wrong.

Vagueposting is lame. Either say something or don’t. Don’t call attention ot what you’re not saying.

This is the best kind of people coming to an understanding.