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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • There you go, thats the spirit!

    Im not donvoting this btw. But yeah, if i’m being a bit more sassy its like a baby asking if they should focus on thw quality or quantity of attempted first steps towards learning to walk.

    Its like, dont even worry about it, just do what you can and if you’re genuine + with some gentle guidance, you will be fine. It can be scary sometimes in a banal way but worst case scenario you can just delete it (a post or unfortunate comment, thread) and never address it again haha. I

    I have shitty ideas or questions or takes all the time but they often lead to better or more interesring twists and turns and addressing genuinely random and variably interesting shit that would have never surfaced if I didnt go along with that particular day’s or moments inquiries. Often a single unusual word that came out of me in the text can spur an entire extended new line of questions or experiments so you never really know what you can uncover

    Its oddly helpful to consider posts and replies as experiments where you get to try out different ideas and positions and dynamics and see how that resonates with different Lemmings and communication styles. You learn when to be playful, serious, how to really dig into something that elicits your curiousity or incredulity, etc. Its been fantastic, I love being able to reasonably crowd-source ideas and discussions like that











  • You have a pretty low count of posts and comments and you’ve been here 2 months, best to focus on providing value and asking non-meta actually interesting stuff.

    Its super easy to not do what you’ve described and fallen into: post something interesting each day or at least comment something insightful, empathetic, funny, or something of genuine engagement and dont worry about “quality”, often just being a decent, normal, human is resonant and engaging enough

    Also, you can literally always do what you mentioned (asking to expand or flesh out more slight content) in a curious, non-judgmental way and people will be crazy to go that extra mile for you or even way more miles than either of you initially bargained for. Try it, its fun. It happens constantly and in the same way almost every time for me. But please do lay off the “tOo MuCh SpAm/CoNtEnT” curator thing tho, nobody has the right to make these kinds of value judgments particularly when the Fedi is still so nascent and its almost always lurkers who finally explode

    Nobody should be trying to limit the scope or define people’s “quality” or “value” in that way