Well, you feeling strong about something doesn't necessarily mean other people also care about that thing.

And the pictures you called Despair and Colors are something you need to stop and think about for a moment. And social media is fast, people don't do that. They'll upvote something that is colorful and catches their eye while scrolling past. Something obviously funny on a glance or things that have to do with pop-culture and are agreeable. What also works is to mix two things that don't go together. That's easy to understand and a pun lots of people get immediately and they'll upvote you for that.

I don't think a (normal) social media platform will ever become an art gallery.

Your first two I also like better, but they're not meme-y like the others.

I've found the same to be true of my posts as well. But you do face fans, I'm one of them.

As for posts I'm trying to post daily to help the community grow. I mix it up between things I think will be popular and things that mean something to me.

Upvotes follow a weird logic. On reddit, quite often a long comment about something I know about got no upvotes while a shitpost joke in a one line comment got over 1000 upvotes.

People do not necassirily judge the quality by voting.

It's similar as nobody remember who invented the computer mouse or the digital tablet but everyone remembersk when apple started to sell them

Moreover, a topic important to you might not vibe with evenyone, go to the underground club and see people living their best life listening to weird music in a small place, but most people would preffer Taylor Swift or Rammstein

I don't follow AI image generation for the art really. I'm looking for things that I do not think I could recreate myself. Things like the electric slide image simply resonate with how I feel about dancing; I'd rather do anything else. Styles that may resonate elsewhere or in a traditional style are far less appealing to me. If it looks like anything I could get at random, I am less interested too. I'm not very emotionally invested though.

👉 Paradox of the Actor

you should read the whole essay.

you're one of my favorite diffusers here 👍

I think you're putting too much emphasis on these scores. I notice myself that I liked your two higher score ones, and not the others. For whatever reason I never ended up seeing the others. Now, what matters to me and I think a lot of others here is the sharing of the content. Look at your average between all those. For Lemmy, you get great average engagement for just straight image posts. If thats what you are after you are doing great.

Oh yeah anything out of the “formula” often doesn’t fair well I find.

I’ve passed over sharing a lot of pictures I personally like because I know others probably won’t be feeling them.

Your stuffs great though, and I enjoy how diverse it can be.

Jarring grabs attention and I think that’s what your highly upvoted ones succeed at.

I didn't feel the Despair one, but did like the Colours one (didn't vote for either). I didn't really feel either of the Eletric Slid or the He-Moon ones but have liked some of your other work.

I have felt that some stuff that I posted would be better received that some of the other stuff, It seems you have to hit the meme just right

I'd probably just post whatever you have fun posting without a lot of concern for whether people like it. They can rank it however they want.

I mean, I post things that I like making. Sometimes they're not what people necessarily want, but we aren't at the point that the community has such a firehose of images that the mods have to try to throttle it down.