conjure communal belonging
How much is community belonging a function of being prolific through recurrent appearances, contributions, and creations? I figure that, the more visible you and your work is within a group, the more embedded you may feel with that group.
However, that isn't always the case. I would expect that to be less the case online. Lively public appearances can disguise private desolation extremely well. Not only is connection already an outlier, but radically transparent connection is like pulling a needle from a haystack.
Adding personal comparisons beyond yourself and your past further complicates matters. You may feel that people with vastly more contributions than yourself in a space feel like they belong so much more. Yet, they can easily feel the opposite in reality. Them being seen or heard by devoted people doesn't guarantee that they can feel any semblance of that attention. All that attention could even be perceived by them as a net negative depending on their circumstances.
Could belonging be more of a function of assuming the risk of batting for it yourself? If belonging is feeling seen, heard, and welcomed, how often do you try stoking those reactions in the people around you? Looking at that contact from a different angle, how often do you advocate for your own belonging wherever you are?