I have no idea where to post anything

!actual_discussion@lemmy.ca

If it’s not topic specific, try this one?

I get it, even with link posts and memes sometimes I’m not sure if I’m posting it in the right places, or if I have to trade off potential traction with how closely related it is.

A solution I’ve employed sometimes is to post to two spots: - first in the niche community where it feels a best fit, even if it shows like 12 subscribers… - then crosspost to a more popular one for visibility with a link in body text to the other one, to help other people discover the niche community.

That way you don’t feel forced to only participate in the popular instances and communities.

E.g. !boardgames@sopuli.xyz then !games@lemmy.world

E.g.2: !vancouver@lemmy.ca then !canada@lemmy.ca

E.g.3: !rant@lemmy.sdf.org then !goodoffmychest@lemmy.world

What are you trying to post?

Check out !lemmy411@lemmy.ca - you can make a post asking about what kind of content or discussions you’re looking for and people may be able to point you in the right direction.

Some discussion communities I follow that aren’t about a specific topic:

!nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

!asklemmy@lemmy.world

!showerthoughts@lemmy.world

edit: I also know of !casualconversation@piefed.social although I don’t follow it.

I personally look at feeds like: https://piefed.social/feeds

when im looking at general topics. For example:

Makes it easy to say, go down a step and find ALL fediverse related communities.

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.

There’s always !justpost@lemmy.world as the last resort.

For what you’re describing in your edit:

!politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world

and maybe

!military@lemmy.world

Just searching across instances for the most general keywords of what you want to post. In this case: “military”, “politic”, “relations” and reading the rules/description of the communities.

Also, I’d say it’s pretty healthy for lemmy to post in communities without much/any activity yet. You’d be one of the first/few to breath life into them to grow.

Did you already find communities that match your interests well, in general? Or are you missing only specific kinds of communities? I was kind of lost at discovering what’s out there at first, now with a set of nice communities, it’s much more clear where to post.

What is a reasonable amount of activity in your context?

The feature to move posts between communities is planned and also AFAIK Piefed’s feature of bundling together comments across all cross-posts is also coming to Lemmy sometime. Those, I think, could ease your worries a bit

But apart from that, my 2¢: save your markdown and “just do it” - unironically. It is true that many bad posts get deleted. But if you are coming with a real thought to discuss

1. it’s probable it won’t be deleted even if it bends some community rules
2. even if it does get deleted from a community, that does not put you in the same bag as those offenders

IMO, being absolutely-fucking-right-all-the-time-where-to-post is not a prerequisite to being here. After all (IMO) we are all here just people, we are all here just to connect, not perfectly sort posts into communities. The way threadiverse is, the communities are and will be and (IMO) should be in constant flux. With time, or rather posts, you will start to get the unwritten feel of communities. What gets downvoted where, what gets more reaction where, etc. But there is no way not even to know it beforehand, there is no way to codify it.

Also, on a more philosophical note, when you are interacting with a community, you are taking part in defining it. ATM you might be a small drop in the ocean, or the first signal of change. Maybe it needs to get more thoughts than links? Or maybe the discussants need to split off into another community? Neither you nor me, nor current community posters know that. Time will tell, communities will flux

Let the thought flow

We used to say RTFM or Lurk more in the good old days.

I would recommend !politics@lemmy.world or one of the anarchist discussion communities such as !anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com or !soulism@multiverse.soulism.net

yeah it’s difficult to choose. just post wherever you feel like it and call it done :) that’s what i do.

in case you really don’t know, !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world and !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone accept basically anything :P