I clarify:

I recently created a community where you can post stories, but I have a question: why didn’t I find such a community in this instance? Is it just that the brain has an easier time absorbing content such as comics or manga, and reading causes excessive fatigue, or are there other problems, for example, writing is harder than drawing?

  • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    56 minutes ago

    This is what I imagine asklemmy posts would have looked like in the 1950s.

    There are so many levels one could answer at. First off, we don’t want every community to exist on lemmy.world. Just because it doesn’t exist there doesn’t mean you need to make it. Second, I consider graphic novels/comics/manga to be just as out of fashion as books these days. AFAIK kids barely read at all anymore. Third, I consider drawing much harder than writing, but that’s a personal thing. Heck, both are trivially generated by AI these days, so the idea of having a superiority complex about one seems silly to me. Artists should stick together. In the same medium, if they want to.

    If you don’t like seeing visual art next to written art, that’s a personal preference. I don’t think it says anything about the state of people’s brains that one community is larger than another, if anything, visuals are probably just easier to market in a world with a LOT of “content” going around. But at the end of the day, there just aren’t a whole lotta people using Lemmy. So I’m not surprised when you say a specific community doesn’t have a lot of activity. It could be that people interested in stories just have more established communities on [competing sites].

  • Apeman42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    9 hours ago

    I think a lot of amateur writers feel more comfortable with a prompt or an established theme for the community to get started with. It’s part of why WritingPrompts, HFY, and HumansAreSpaceOrcs were pretty popular on reddit. After that, I imagine it’s just like any online community, a matter of promoting it to people and getting splintered tiny communities to band together in one place.

    It looks like your community is pretty general theme-wise, have you considered maybe a “theme of the week” post, or a sticky where people can dump prompts for someone to pick up and run with?

    • deadymouse@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      8 hours ago

      It looks like your community is pretty general theme-wise, have you considered maybe a “theme of the week” post, or a sticky where people can dump prompts for someone to pick up and run with?

      Yes, I think it would be possible to organize themes for the week, for example, fantasy with an unusual main character, if that’s what you had in mind.

  • nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de
    7·
    13 hours ago

    Pictures are fun to look at. Also, one picture can tell you things that 10 sentences cannot.

    I would personally prefer a short comic (4-frames) than a short paragraph. But it also depends on the context and quality of the writing. Idk.