I’m still here, keeping an eye on things in a sense.

A few months ago I was trying to get this, and a few other communities going, by posting actively and the like but I got pretty burned out and had to focus on other things.

I am not sure lemmy has the population yet to reach the point where communities can be self sustaining. I suspect those that are active are being kept so by a small handful of dedicated users, and when those users leave for one reason or another, the community fades.

Thanks for posting.

Please remember to add the creators name to the post title, if you know it.

I don’t think it is from one. The artist is lvl, if you are looking for more of their work.

Creating private chat groups is another matter. I honestly think Matrix chat is the best approach for secure and private group connectivity in the FediVerse. Though some might argue for Signal.

I was just passing through and thought I would throw in my two cents on this, as someone with a bit of experience. Session and SimpleX both work as ‘secure and private group chat’ platforms, as they are E2EE and require no phone numbers/other private information. SimpleX is a little more feature rich, but I’ve found Session more stable (although SimpleX is improving. They also lack the geek-curve @[email protected] mentioned, as you don’t have to do much more than pick a username to start chatting (unless you want to dig into all the technical settings). Depending on what you are looking for in a chat app, you may want to check them out.

e: fixed the link for SimpleX

Sure!

I don’t know. I was not able to find any more pages.

I suppose at the end of the day expectations and stereotypes on all ‘sides’ are what can lead to a lot of problems.

Agreed! I really have no idea why it is so rare… I often have to search really hard to find content of that sort. Another thing that really inspired this com was that most of softer content I could find often had the man/masculine partner (if one was present) more on the giving side of comfort/affection. Not that there is anything wrong with that of course, I just wanted to create a space that allowed for, and maybe normalized a little, masculine people being softer and vulnerable and cared for in a healthy way.

I’ll stop myself before I go on a rant

Ha! Maybe I should follow your example.

I’m glad you are enjoying it! A community like this was something I really felt was lacking (both here and on other platforms) so felt I should make one.

Agreed. If you believe a post does not follow rule 1 (like this one) feel free to report it so I am notified to take a look at it.

@[email protected] provided this guide in the comments of the original post:

I’ve only had success with posting links to animated WebP files, which preview and display correctly in the default web UI. It doesn’t seem to work perfectly across the variety of apps and their handling of images though.

I think @NotAGuyInAHat mentioned that they use EZgif to do it. I generate them locally with FFmpeg, though that’s a little technical.

Yes

I think that’s the artist’s name, but I’m having a bit of a hard time reading their signature, hence the ?

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Thanks! I’ve updated the title

Thanks for the guide. Looks like the app I use is one that doesn’t support cross posting. I’ll have to give the browser a shot.

Alright! I’ll have to do some poking around (and figure out how cross posting works).

Welcome!

I’d say it fits.

Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll check it out. Funnily enough, I get a lot of the content I post from Reddit.

Yep. If the communities here could attract some high quality OC posters (especially ones who don’t also post on Reddit) that would lead to some major growth, but that goes back to the same problem of OC producers not coming here because of low view counts…. I think at the end of the day, Lemmy is going to struggle to compete unless Reddit does something crazy and completely bans NSFW content or something.

You may be right about the inactive accounts, and you are definitely correct about the dead imgur content (although I’d put the number more towards 50-60 percent), but I’m afraid those factors aren’t quite enough to make Lemmy attractive. Imgur struck a blow towards the NSFW side of Reddit, but it has recovered.

Another draw Reddit has that I forgot to mention is the prevalence of OC content. That can have it’s own problems, with spam and excessive advertising, but the big upside is if a user finds something they like, with a single click they can go directly to the source to find more of it.

RE: My community Yes, and no. With the type of content it is focused on, I have a slight bias towards illustration, and I’m basically the sole poster so that affects things. But, more than that, I haven’t found any non-illustration content that would fit. With that said, it certainly isn’t meant to be an illustration only community. I’m not attempting to actively remove or suppress non-illustration content.