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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 take medication that would absolutely make me sick if I smoked or ingested weed. And I know this because I read the interactions list, rolled my eyes, tried it anyway, and surprise!

Why did I read this like patch notes on a game?

Being that it’s cards against humanity, I expected them to email a disapproving message to your mother.

I’ve never seen it before now, and I loved it. (If you’re reading this and haven’t seen it, go watch it, because the one thing someone else mentioned in a comment would’ve been funny if I wasn’t expecting it.)

The end of the bit was what really did it for me.

Thank you.

Danny Devito.

…I’m a woman.

They hose down the court after the collisions.

That’s the beauty of the internet. There’s always a competitor. I don’t have to use someone who had a bad reputation at one point but is fine now. I can just use someone else.

Distilled is good enough for demonstration purposes.

It is a joke image.

But also yes. Pure water tastes awful. I’m one of those “super” tasters and I used to work for a water filtration company. Lemme say… what people think they want and what they actually want are often two different things.

My doctors office actually notified me that I’m on 2 medications that make me extra heat sensitive.

I appreciate it. This is a good reminder to folks to check.

Oh, no, I have a prescription for ADHD medication. I’ve just always been curious about whether I’d have that experience.

I haven’t done it by now and I’m pushing 40. Don’t you worry about me.

I have pretty crippling ADHD and I always wanted to try cocaine because of all the stories of ADHD folks trying it and feeling calm and normal.

Just curious to see if I have the same experience.