Never. I live for posting the most trivial garbage that pops into my head.
I want tofu.
"start writing a comment and give up halfway through" gang rise up
Honestly, it is also fine to simply... not post. I spent my first year on the site pretty much purely lurking, and even after I started actively posting it mostly consisted of random fluff I found fun or interesting. And I still make way more video/image posts than comments or text posts, precisely because it doesn't involve any writing of text - as soon as I get into that territory, it takes me like half an hour to post something since I have to rewrite every sentence a dozen times.
So, you can try that route, echoing Alaskaball's advice - if it's something you thought was neat, just post it. If even just one other person sees it and thinks "huh, that's neat", then maybe it was worth mentioning.
Oh yes. I even have a severe case of signing up anxiety. But now, when Hexbear won't give me "something went wrong" page every ten minutes, i kinda ran out of excuses. So here i am, looking forward to shitposting with you, comrades. Anxiously.
I get irrationally upset when ppl reply to my posts in bad faith so I post a lot less these days lol.
There's been a lot more of that recently, too.
I wonder how much is redditors wandering outside of their pen, and how much is the flamewar promoting active algorithm poisoning everyone's vibes.
Yeah I think the active algorithm plays a significant part, but it also seems like there's a small portion of users that like to seek out conflict. But I think that's just the nature of most internet discourse.
I feel this very much- I've had posting anxiety for so long. There's a chance I may delete this comment. If you're reading this, I didn't, which is a win for me lol
My worries are almost always focused on other people's reactions, and I trip myself up before I even say anything. I get in my own way a lot!
For me personally, it's trusting my own opinions and avoiding the temptation to just keep rereading and editing what I typed until I just delete it and go lurk some more.
Also the internet is fake and you can just say whatever, and that's a GOOD thing
This place is great for posting literally anything you're thinking and not getting judged (unless you stumble on a struggle session topic but those are pretty easy to avoid)
I do the opposite - Reddit trained me that anyone with a contrary opinion is a lib, which was usually true there but definitely not here. Of course, people here are generally much more agreeable anyway so it isn't a big issue.
In the end though, nothing online matters that much so just fire off whatever you feel like
The value of a post doesn't matter - some of the greatest posts we've ever had were "valueless" jokes. That's why "shitposting" isn't a negative term.
Personally my favorite posts are when someone posts something dumb I can riff on, like the instapot guy or anything Dirt_Owl does.
for any post or comment that I've ever made, I've drafted at least 10x as many but deleted before posting
I have written so many comments just to delete before posting lmao, although similar to others it's not as bad as
