This is the quiet one underneath all the others. You finally hit publish, and then nothing. No likes, no comments, no replies. Just the sound of your own post sitting there. The fear of that silence is often what keeps the post from ever going up.
Make the thing, do not chase the number
My actual job is to create one thing after another and get a little better each time. Views are a byproduct of doing that consistently, not the target I am aiming at. When I aim at the number, I freeze. When I aim at making the next thing, I move.
A small first audience is the point
The outcome I am after is a flywheel, not a follower count for its own sake. The first ten real people who care are worth more than a thousand who scroll past. Those ten are how anything compounds. Everyone who has a big audience started a post that got almost no response, and kept going.
The takeaway: silence is not rejection. It is just the empty room before anyone knows to show up.