Any advice for reaching more people on Cara?

I recently deleted all of my content off Instagram and transferred it over to Cara. I know what it can take to get more traction to some extent, I grew somewhat familiar with building up connections but I guess I mainly got used to doing so on Instagram and especially when its the type of platform most people use in general, I'm a bit stumped now that I'm back to 0 on a platform I'm only starting to use now.

I guess my main curiosity is for those of you who post your art/anything on Cara, how did you go about reaching people to build a following? How do you build your connections?

(I do understand that posting consistently of course will play a big part)

This is my account currently if you're wondering about what content I'm trying to rebuild an audience for:

https://cara.app/karmalostashoulder

It's quite a variety of things, I started with illustrations, now it's a mix of content for an animation series I'm working on and a lot of voice acting

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AsideAcrobaticArea•1 day ago•1

Cara is very visual-based... I'd only post art.

Also, I'd use other platforms to get more people to check out the account as your account is new

luodaint•1 day ago•1

The thing that will cost you followers on Cara isn't the posting schedule. It's that the account is three things at once: illustrations, an animation series, and voice acting. Someone new can't answer "what do I get if I follow", so they don't.

Pick the animation series as the spine and make the other two feed it. Character illustrations become design work for the series. Voice work becomes a clip from it. You keep doing all of it, but the feed reads as one project instead of a portfolio reel, and that is what people follow.

Two practical things beyond that:

  • Cara behaves more like a portfolio than a discovery engine. Most of your traffic will come from somewhere else, so keep the Cara link in your other profiles and post the same work there with a pointer back. Don't expect the Cara feed alone to find you an audience from zero.
  • Spend 15 minutes a day commenting on work you actually like, specifically enough that the artist knows you looked. On a smaller platform that is how people find you, and generic "love this" does nothing.

Last thing: treat the first 20 posts as a series, not a portfolio. Same character, same world, numbered, so someone who lands on post 14 has a reason to go back to 1.

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