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this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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It's mostly me posting in [email protected], with votes on the posts being either on the cusp of or just barely into double digits for a 400-ish subscriber community. The rough part is that while the number of subscribers continues to grow, the number of people posting and commenting has not. I exchange at most 1 comment or so from time to time with 1 other user.
The slow but steady subscriber count growth keeps me from giving up and stopping, but I wonder when I'll start to see engagement from more than just me. I'm thinking of trying to encourage more low-effort engagement, like [DISC] posts where people can comment with links to doujinshi with related content, but haven't committed to it yet.
Anecdotally, growing and maintaining a hentai-oriented community feels pretty challenging. The instance as a whole is generally IRL-oriented, looking at Local+Active (which isn't a bad thing, esp. w/ the OC posters!). Other hentai posters have either left in search of or been banned for posting content they'd ordinarily post elsewhere. While the reasons are understandable, I think it creates some barriers to visibility and posting in hentai communities.
EDIT: The UX around GIF/Video posting also seems to suck enough for me to not post any to avoid people just seeing still frames instead of an animation, but that's seemingly more of a Lemmy problem than anything to do w/ this specific instance.
Yup! That describes my experiences with [email protected] . And I try to post to other communities that I want to see active but it’s hella slow going.
I tried to enable the horny posters by writing post titles as questions, which usually works great on reddit. The most engagement I get on here is “you didn’t include source on this one” 😅
Yeah, that sounds about right. FWIW the original paizuri sub (which I don't moderate) barely has any comments even on its biggest posts in the past year, so it's not like I'm doing much worse. 😋
I just want other people to post so I can add to my own collection. For now, I'm just rediscovering things I've downloaded or artists I should be following, but it'd be better to get from others too.