I don’t know if others are experiencing a similar situation. My all feed is very sparse with engagement. If I sort top six hours or by top 12 most posts have between 5-10 comments. I feel like there was more in the past? Is engagement dropping off? I’m on lemmy.world as my instance.

  • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
    4·
    7 months ago

    I try to keep posting more in depth and original things, but it demotivates me as a poster to keep working hard and putting in hours when the audience seems like it’s shrinking.

    I am really sympathetic to this. I have only posted OC for months now, with some posts taking a week or more worth of free time only to get virtually no eyes on it. I admit that timing posts poorly probably has a lot to do with it, but man does it suck to see something you’ve put quite a bit of time into (whether that seems obvious or not) get 10 upvotes and 3 down with no comments etc.

    • anon6789@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 months ago

      I try not to think about the cumulative time I’ve spent posting! 😆

      It does truly suck though when you think you’ve done your best work and it falls flat. Then when I’m sulking afterwards, I’ll post something real low effort and it will be the top post of the month, never fails.