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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The same users who get “choice paralysis” from deciding where to post are, typically, the ones who

I'm not so sure. I sometimes have choice paralysis again on a topic I'm not familiar with, and I'm sure quite a lot of other people do as well

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm sure plenty exceptions exist - that's why I said "typically", it's that sort of generalisation that applies less to real individuals and more to an abstract "typical user".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

@[email protected] , which is quite active as well, has a similar experience: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39248886/17090166

To me, choice paralysis happens to most of people, whatever their familiarity level with the platform. I would actually be worried if someone knew exactly where to post for any topic, because it would mean they probably just default to their home instance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I've personally developed my system as:

  1. If there are multiple communities, which is the most popular?
  2. If the most popular community is on a problematic instance, skip to the next most popular that is also on a good instance.

That takes away the paralysis, at least for me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

What do you do when there are two similarly active communities?