I’ve made quite a few posts to /c/risa that are actual OC. I’m either horrible at humor, the timing is bad, or it doesn’t work for whatever reason. Extremely low effort memes? Lots of upvotes. If I do high effort stuff that takes an hour or more, I’m just discouraged by the lack of even comments.

So, to tie this all up - is it worth a latinum bar to keep trying to do OC? Do you all even want that (seriously)?

  • Codex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    11 months ago

    Have you tried crossposting to [email protected] ?

    (https://lemmy.world/c/startrekmemes)

    Not to promote inter-instance drama but I believe the founder of that community specifically cited c/Risa deleting their posts as a reason for starting a competing community.

    Plus, just reposting your memes at a different time of day on another instance will help get you wider views. The lemmy algorithms are fickle so a little extra self-promo doesn’t hurt.

    • Stamets@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Hey there! I just wanted to say a couple things. First to keep an eye out for Monday as a different community will be replacing StarTrekMemes. Honestly the name is really vague and it doesn’t inspire the type of community that I was looking for. After talking with a few other people and posters, we will be opening a new one. Same general vibe though. Star trek memes and shitposts. Just a different banner promoting an actual community and spirit that we can hopefully all get behind. Also way better sounding than just “Star Trek Memes hurrrrrr”. I’m not super creative.

      However.

      I didn’t make the community due to having my posts deleted. In fact I don’t think anything of mine ever was. I don’t want this to stir up drama here either or anything but the community was made directly in response to a lack of rules specifically and things that directly stemmed from that.