It looks like your community is pretty general theme-wise, have you considered maybe a “theme of the week” post, or a sticky where people can dump prompts for someone to pick up and run with?

Yes, I think it would be possible to organize themes for the week, for example, fantasy with an unusual main character, if that's what you had in mind.

Hold on, yes we do want every community to exist on lemmy and the fediverse.

If all that people see are memes, technology, games, asking questions, politics and news all of the time that's available. They won't help grow the fediverse. The purpose of the fediverse is to offer people platforms to get them off the shit-world that centralized social media has become.

So if we have nothing else to offer them but those things, of course the fediverse won't grow.

There are so many levels one could answer at. First off, we don’t want every community to exist on lemmy.world. Just because it doesn’t exist there doesn’t mean you need to make it. Second, I consider graphic novels/comics/manga to be just as out of fashion as books these days. AFAIK kids barely read at all anymore. Third, I consider drawing much harder than writing, but that’s a personal thing. Heck, both are trivially generated by AI these days, so the idea of having a superiority complex about one seems silly to me. Artists should stick together. In the same medium, if they want to.

I don't know why you decided that this is a superiority complex, I created this community as a place where people can express themselves in the old way, because I believe that such stories have something unique, because they can be not just stories, but something can unite people, since the feelings of the author can be understood through the text, which can then grow into communication, and then perhaps into something more.

If you don’t like seeing visual art next to written art, that’s a personal preference. I don’t think it says anything about the state of people’s brains that one community is larger than another, if anything, visuals are probably just easier to market in a world with a LOT of “content” going around. But at the end of the day, there just aren’t a whole lotta people using Lemmy. So I’m not surprised when you say a specific community doesn’t have a lot of activity. It could be that people interested in stories just have more established communities on [competing sites].

That's not the point: I like these comics, but I also like to read stories that I didn't find here, and I don't trust other places because there's no way to know if an AI story is created or not.

IDK about the "kids barely read at all anymore" part. I'm reading a lot (though mostly web novels) and it's not been that long since I've been a kid

https://lemmy.world/c/ShareYourMiniStory

I'm not sure you'll be satisfied with an almost zero asset, but okay.