It's kinda hard to get a feel for which community you should post somethings in. I'd say this is particularly true of discussion topics/text posts (that end up never posted). Anyone else or Is it just a me problem? If not, what could be done about it?

Edit 1: For context {not the subject intended for discussion in this thread], to further the thread, I wanted to add to the current discussion, (mostly) in news threads about the potential military conflict between the US and Nato over Greenland. In my perception, a common thought in these threads is that no rational country or military would defend itself against the overwhelming power of the US, despite numerous countries and insurgencies have fought against the US at a terrible disadvantage. A post of this could have taken many forms, e.g. a list of wiki articles to conflicts, a meme, an open ended question/discussion text post. But finding a place to post any possible iteration of such a post in a Lemmy community where there's a reasonable amount of activity would take going over a large amount of community rules, etc.

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[–] ambitiousslab@feddit.uk 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I get you. I can never think of anything that would be interesting to post or ask in the more discussion-oriented communities, let alone choose a specific one to post in. I definitely find comments easier, as well as posting to more niche communities. I feel the scope is usually better defined there.

Would you say it's about not knowing if your post would be accepted in the community, or just finding the best place for it? If it's the latter, AskLemmy could be good for general questions, or failing that, any of the casual chat communities such as !chat@beehaw.org.

As long as your post meets the rules of the community/instance, I feel it's better to post somewhere than not at all - people can always crosspost it elsewhere if they like.

[–] TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 hours ago

I get you. I can never think of anything that would be interesting to post or ask in the more discussion-oriented communities, let alone choose a specific one to post in. I definitely find comments easier, as well as posting to more niche communities. I feel the scope is usually better defined there.

I tend to feel the same way (and by no means am I saying the world is missing out on my would be posts). It's easier to join a discussion that's already going or go off a prompt. What really started this train of thought is that I felt that what I wanted to discuss became too off-topic to the thread that prompted it.

Would you say it’s about not knowing if your post would be accepted in the community, or just finding the best place for it? If it’s the latter, AskLemmy could be good for general questions, or failing that, any of the casual chat communities such as !chat@beehaw.org.

Thank you for those tips. I'm sure this problem could be broken down in to many parts, I think the base task of identifying where a post will meet the format requirement would be the first threshold -- and I think that's often hard. Then there's the whole thing of getting the whole vibe of a community, etc.

As long as your post meets the rules of the community/instance, I feel it’s better to post somewhere than not at all - people can always crosspost it elsewhere if they like.

I support this sentiment, it's sensible for growing the platform.