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I'm getting tired of making generally bad OC (startrek.website)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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)?

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[–] CodexArcanum 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] CodexArcanum 1 points 10 months ago

Ah! Sorry Stamets, I didn't mean to misrepresent you, my memory is just terrible, heh. Thanks for clarifying.