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To "drip" versus to "roundup," is that the question? (i.e., how to best distribute posting/image content across the FV & Lemmy-sphere) (lemm.ee)
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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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[–] Elevator7009sAlt@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

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.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] Elevator7009sAlt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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?

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks, mate!
So, both the acct and destination community were hosted by Lemm.ee. It's one of the big-five or big-four instances (whatever) across the Lemmysphere, FWIW.

I suppose I could test this from FF (I'm on Chrome) if you think that might work, altho it did work fine in Chrome just a week ago. *shrug*

[–] Elevator7009sAlt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Every single time I have used the Lemmy Scheduler I did it from Safari or Firefox. I do not have a lemm.ee so I cannot test posting from there unfortunately. I'll try to post TO lemm.ee and edit this comment with my result

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