This is exactly how I feel across all lemmy communities. Back in my reddit days id find myself writing out entire comments in full, only to delete them before submitting just to avoid a subsequent flood of replies. On lemmy I find myself leaving more and more comments even on shit I barely care about just hoping to drive more user discussions.im not complaining. I genuinely love lemmy and hated reddit, but I cant help feeling like im spaming posts with my comments.
WolframViper@lemmy.org 5 weeks ago
I feel like most of the writing communities are also pretty inactive. I’m not sure why. I liked reading short stories on Reddit, and I don’t like looking at memes. I’m not sure whether it’s a good thing (because I don’t use Lemmy as often that way) or a bad thing.
I guess I could spam them with public-domain stories or reposts or something, but I feel like that’s just losing the plot.
11111one11111@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Wiz@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Wait - writing communities on Lemmy?
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Yeah, creative writing communities like r/AmITheAsshole, r/relationshipadvice, or r/offmychest.
Wiz@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
I meant I’m interested in communities about the act and craft of creative writing.
Despite your sarcasm, those communities are ostensibly about writing about a real situation.
WolframViper@lemmy.org 4 weeks ago
To be honest, I was thinking about ones where people uploaded short stories to the platform. I guess if you want a community focused on the act of writing, you have !writing@slrpnk.net and !furrywriting@pawb.social, which are about discussions about writing generally and writing furry stories respectively, and there are probably others that I’m too lazy to find.
Anyways, I am not the best person to find writing communities in general. For example, I literally found this post today, which lists a bunch of communities for short stories. I’m going to list them in order of most to least active, as well as adding my own findings (of communities of short stories where fiction could be appreciated).
So there are some.
Overall, it seems like I probably should have remembered literature.cafe as a whole existed when I made the first post. It also has a community for writing prompts.