To be clear, the time probably needs to be expressed via UTC / GMT or other time zone labels.

I regularly post across ~half a dozen communities, the most frequent being to my own, where I post at 9AM (UTC-4 / EST zone) so as to hit early risers in the States and afternoon surfers in Europe. But with other posts, I get the sense that it would be better to post later in the day to hit more viewers. I’m just not sure when that would be.

TBC, I usually use the PieFed scheduler to post, so it’s no problem for me posting at any time of the day.

Thanks for any insight!

  • anon6789@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I’ve always been curious about this kind of stuff also. Without any real data, I just stuck to what seemed to work for me.

    I post at 6am EST, right when I’m done breakfast and getting ready to leave for work. That gives early risers here about 90 minutes before I get my laptop set up at work and can bang out the easy replies for the early group. Around lunch I’ll just be at the end of the Top 6 Hour scrollers for the US/Canada ppl and can knock out those questions and any harder morning questions during lunch. That’s about 90% of the interaction with my posts, and I have the afternoon and evening off from Lemmy other than my post prep.

    I wish I got more overnight comments because I feel they’d be more folks from other parts of the world and they may ask different questions or share my local knowledge about things I know less about, but I’m not sure how many Asian users we have or anything like that.