I'm feeling a bit burnt out lately. I'm having fun running the Owl of the Year tournament again, but I'm a little tired of making regular posts at the moment.

A lot of stressful things are going on in my personal life, so I don't know if that's it, or if I just need a break from the specific content, or what. Maybe I'm just complaining to burn off some anxiety.

But out of my frustration and reading the post from the person in the journaling community, it got me thinking about something like a Post Exchange Program.

Either in Fedigrow or a separate comm, one person could submit a request let's say.

Community: Superbowl@lemmy.world
Posts Requested: 1
Subject: Any

One of you guys with your own community could reply with a trade.

Bun Alert System
Subject: Funny

And you could accept or pass on a post swap.

I thought it could get a fresh set of ideas into some of the communities, and if there was a kind of content I wanted but didn't have the time or knowledge, maybe someone seeing a want ad would be motivated to post.

I wouldn't mind learning about some other topics that I could research occasionally. Even if it's just find a pic you think is cool or funny, you would bring in what someone other than just yourself thinks is good all the time.

This is just like 15 minutes of thinking about it, but if anyone feels this is worth pursuing, maybe we can refine something.

It may even just be easier if some of us could partner up with other people we like their work or a subject we're interested in. Even if they aren't people that frequent Fedigrow, if a few of us or says let's pick one community a week and as a group we each toss a post or two to that community during the week.

I think a lot of us are doing the best a single person can do in there own and maybe some organized collabs could take some of these things to the next level.

Thoughts?

I'm thinking of adding "Question of the Week" type of thread to !publictransport@slrpnk.net

!dailygames@lemmy.zip is self-sustained by now. A lot of regulars are posting games every day. With 600 monthly users I can sit back, play some games myself and watch the community thrive.

I recently linked !nowhereelsetoshare@sh.itjust.works in a comment for the first time. Brought in about 25 news subs and hit 600 subscriber milestone.

Trying to revitalize !journaling@sh.itjust.works. So far, after maybe 3 weeks regularly posting stuff, I'm still the sole poster but members have started commenting which is already great and very encouraging. I've also noticed a few new subscribers joining the community, at least 10 (I forgot to note the initial number so it's probably a little more than that), which I find very encouraging too.

That being said, I have zero idea what I'm doing (and how well), I just want to try. I asked for the community 'lead' (is that how I should say?) because, well, it had been inactive for a year or so. And because no one else asked for it. And because as a lifelong journaler myself I know how useful (and so much more than that) keeping a journal is. It was so sad to see it not moving at all, I wanted to give the community a chance to grow and become more active.

I've discovered Fedigrow this very morning and it feels like it's exactly the place I didn't now I urgently needed to find. I've started reading a few discussions and already grabbed a few cool ideas. Thx :)

I have high hopes for !lemmy_top_shelf@lemmy.world

I think bringing attention to the posters people enjoy is a nice pat on the back to those who make our time spent scrolling worthwhile. Its also a nice punt for the communities the nominees post in.

Happy to help !AskUSA@discuss.online grow

Thank you @OpenStars@discuss.online @m_f@midwest.social @admiralpatrick@lemmy.world and @Anticorp@lemmy.world for volunteering to mod it!

My niche little !FloatingIsFun@fedia.io is doing OK. We are no longer the largest magazine on Mbin, recently surpassed by !Hydrogen@fedia.io and !Greece@fedia.io . I'm starting to feel a little burnout and I might start posting there less and in other communities more. I did recently did some sidebar trickery to add images that only appear in Lemmy and Piefed, to compensate for not having a proper banner on those platforms.

!Resist@fedia.io isn't my community, but it's grown fast over the past month. @Nougat@fedia.io is doing a great job collecting information that will be important to protesters in the coming years.

Nice start for !lotrmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com

!football@lemmy.world is voting for a potential move to another instance. I hope it will, still posting there in the meantime

Trying to keep !pokemon@lemm.ee and !dragonball@ani.social active as well

Same old on !movies@lemm.ee and !showsandmovies@lemm.ee

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