Although if such a community already exists, then please give a link if you have one.
I would like to create a community where people can express their bad feelings or feelings in mini-stories and even get praise or support as an “Art Share🎨”, expressing their soul however they want, without stupid fan services and stuff, is it a good idea or not?
A long, long time ago, someone asked that very question while sitting in a bait shop eating pizza. Of course there were no computers at the time so the question was about posting personal adds on the local notice board. The consensus was that it was a good idea but the fish monger, who managed the board, was against it. Try as they may the supporters could not convince them to change their mind. Eventually they gave up and decided to find another location for the personal adds. Looking down at the pizza box in front of them they had an idea. Why not put personal adds on the tops of peoples shoes. Then as they shuffled around town looking down as to not make eye contact with others, they would see the personal add. Of course this practice of not looking people in the eye made the need for a space for personal adds all the more urgent. The next problem was how to decide who’s shoes you would attach your add to and how to do it without sneaking into their homes at night. A young delivery clerk reached into their mouth and pulled out a very tired piece of bubble gum he had been chewing to the point it was devoid of flavour and use, except for the fact it was still very sticky. “We could put the notice on the ground and place some gum on it so when someone steps on them both, the notice will become attached to that persons shoe”. Immediately the crowd moaned that you wouldn’t be able to tell who would be the recipient of someones plea for love. The wanted to know how this could be resolved, to which the young clerk responded, “You can hire a gumshoe”.
I already have a story I can share. Please do!
Well, I can say that I have already created it, here is the link, if interested, I will be glad to your tips for improving the community - https://lemmy.world/c/ShareYourMiniStory
The name of the community is quite long. Why not just “smallstories” or “prose” or “shortstories” or “contes”?
Yep.
i have this idea that communities should be created due to some actual pressure… as a solution to a group needing a home away from some general purpose stream… like when star trek memes took over the main memes channels and thus, required that signal be extracted into its own community…
you cant just build a community and hope the content creators will come… they must already need a home.
But if even one lemmy user finds this community and starts writing as a result, it’s an impact.
Induced demand also applies to social media. Having a dedicated community for something can cause people who had not thought to post something (because there was no dedicated community for it and they don’t want to risk putting it in a community where it doesn’t fit) to post.
Related, I really think we could use a /c/whatever community, for creative works and posts that don’t fit into any existing communities. It will also serve as a good place to assess when a community should be created, since you can just see what a lot of people are posting.
But it seems that first I need to decide where to build this house, since this instance is not quite reliable, there are too many rules that are stifling.
But I’ll try, maybe something will work out.
I agree! I also think that growth should be based on this pressure rather than willy-nilly, so as to increase activity in more generalised communities, and so that smaller communities can start with a sizeable userbase.
