> Then someone else submitted it again, this time it was front page for several hours, got 60-70k visitors in a day. also blew up on Reddit/Linkedin, had random

> Then someone else submitted it again, this time it was front page for several hours, got 60-70k visitors in a day. also blew up on Reddit/Linkedin, had random poeple trying to friend me. This is often the case. The list of new posts on any given site will be full of junk, so it is down to luck that your content that is worth bothering with gets noticed by people who it is relevant to. As well as voting it up, some of them are likely to post about it elsewhere, or maybe forward the link more privately, and (again with a large luck factor) you might get a chain reaction of interest or it might just fizzle out. The real luck of the draw comes when someone with a significantly sizes circle of followers forwards or otherwise mentions what you have posted, or⁰ just comments on it, as this increases the change of that chain reaction of interest happening. The key¹ is to not care for wide dissemination as a goal, just consider it a happy accident if it happens, and instead write what is useful to you and/or your close circles (personal or professional, depending on the nature of the content). ---- [0] if the platform highlights such events to others [1] I assume, I've not got any of my stuff out there ATM due to lack of time, lack of motivation, and choice paralysis² [2] which or the many many possible things do I do first? [3] writing about things can aid understanding, or just help you decide further direction, in the same way that more generally doing can be more effective than reading (after initial research at least)