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Do people not read messages? (lemmy.world)
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Over the weeks I've sent a bunch of messages, like offering mod positions, asking for things etc. and I get no responses to about half of them.

Sure, nobody owes me a reply, but I'm wondering if there's a different reason, such as:

  1. Ignoring all notifications, because there's no immediate distinction between a DM or a comment reply

  2. Using an app that doesn't support messages (which one would that be?)

  3. Federation issues (when sending a DM to a different instance)

Thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

They might be passionate about the topic, but wanting to become a moderator for it is a different beast entirely.

That's not a small amount of workload, and they might already have a bunch on their plates already. You don't know that.

It also doesn't help that they're unsolicited. People tend to ignore those, or treat them as spam, since they didn't ask for a position, and getting pinged by a stranger is weird.