It’s also possible that I just personally feel what is being posted isn’t a meme but most disagree, especially given the amount of upvotes received. And of course, the boundary sometimes between a meme and inspirational picture can be blurry, and something probably difficult to hammer down in rules…

I admit part of why I stopped contributing anything (even though I am supposed to be the change I want to see) is because I feel it’s less a space for nice memes and more for a space of inspirational encouraging pictures nowadays with titles like “it’s true,” “it really does”. I’m glad people get value out of it and am wondering if anyone knows of a Threadiverse community for memes free of depressing/doomer or political memes, or if I’ll need to make it myself.

  • TryingSomethingNew@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    14·
    28 days ago

    Honestly, you’ve got a couple things going on

    1. Probably (I’m not checking) a lot of it is being posted by the mod, who is trying to get engagement in hopes of getting more people to post. And it’s HARD. Both coming up with enough content, much less very targeted (“memes”)
    2. if you do come up with a alternative community, you’re going to see a lot of cross posting
    3. people aren’t necessarily looking to see which community it came from, it just came across their feed, it’s cute, they upvote. If I posted a cute bad on superbowl the mod would yank it for being offtopic, but people would upvote it assuming it’s in an appropriate subreddit because that’s what they’ve signed up for. (Which is a similar problem with aww vs pics , I’d imagine)

    And yeah, not a lot of memes, but the mod is trying their damndest since it’s hard getting a community to be active enough (less than 1% ever post, from what I can tell, and it’s hard to tell active counts based on subscriber counts )

    I wish I had better options for you. My bet would be 50% of the people here would also join yours, but people would still be very casual about upvoting things.

    But thanks for the kick - I need to go post.

    • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      28 days ago

      I appreciate seeing someone explaining this aspect of the answer- it’s ludicrously difficult to get anyone to post at all

      • TryingSomethingNew@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        28 days ago

        I get it. People on the whole don’t interact, they just want to scroll, and then there’s the “did they just go back to reddit after trying it here”. What’s the saying? “There are dozens of us! dozens!”

    • Emotional_Series7814@kbin.melroy.orgOP
      1·
      26 days ago

      For what it is worth I do try to contribute with posts in communities I am in and I understand the challenge. I mod !blood_donors@healthy.community. I mostly just post whenever I donate, which is bound to be very occasional because of the required donation intervals (2 weeks for platelets if I recall correctly, 8 weeks for regular whole blood) and what my own schedule can accommodate. I sometimes seek out scientific research on blood donation to post, but eventually I’m going to run out.

      Thank you for the long reply! I suppose I should post my funny internet images here again to help out, even if I am admittedly not too pleased with the seemingly-new direction (though better inspirational pictures I don’t vibe with than the depressing or political stuff that actually makes me feel bad).

      • TryingSomethingNew@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        26 days ago

        Thank you for modding Blood donors! That’s pretty cool, dude. And yeah, we can use whatever pick-me-up we can get right now - they’re not my fave either, but I’ll take what I can get.