Are any of you content creators? Artists? Storytellers? Writers? I believe this is a big part of what’s missing from the Fediverse. Sure there’s work out there but I believe it can be so much better. If any of you are please point us to your work, how we can support you and please be sure to share your work on the Fedi. For those that aren’t but would like to be let’s share ideas. How can we make this a more creative space and more welcoming space to creatives?
There’s a lot of artists on the microblog side of the fediverse. It’s just that crossing the boundary to the threadiverse side is a big hassle. Not to mention the one way state of federation between lemmy and mastodon right now makes the other half invisible from this side.
I sort of got the feeling that self-promotion was generally discouraged on Lemmy.
where did you get that impression?
ofc we don’t like corpos advertising their proprietary pieces of shit on here but people showcasing their personal projects are cool and should be encouraged
I noticed this on Mastodon and Lemmy. If you share your own music it often gets downvoted or people tell you that Mastodon isn’t the right place for promotion. It’s really discouraging. Artists who share photographs or paintings get hundreds of upvotes, while musicians get told to not even promote their free music.
Same for non fiction writing. If people can see how you might make a living from what you make, they love to downvote it to oblivion. Guess we’re all suppposed to have office wage jobs all day and write fanfic for free at night. It definitely keeps me from ever posting about my writing.
I suppose creating content in the form of software does not count? Besides that, I’m writing a book, for myself only, and I won’t show it to anyone ever.
Going wild with a concept I came up with some years ago, but it’s too embarrassing, which is why I’m not going to show anyone.
More of a hobby, but I do some vector illustration, I’m very lazy though and my latest one is on hold because I’m trying to make it flawless and just thinking about all the problems I have to account for is so overwhelming I just froze. I’ll definitely share on some Lemmy community or my own pixelfed @quazar-omega@metapixl.com.
About your impression that there seems to be few to no “content creators”, I noticed that too, the Krita community is dead and just filled with reposts from Reddit, there’s a bit more life in the Blender community instead, with actual people posting their own work.
I’ve come to kinda hate when bots repost others’ art, it’s pretty much pointless, you can’t give feedback or give compliments to the artist if they’re on another platform, you can just look at it and move on, which is just sad IMO; when people repost because they find a certain piece beautiful and worth sharing then it’s fine, but they usually don’t even add any comment (e.g. art posts on the !genshin_impact@lemmy.world community) to get a smidge of conversation going, of course, nobody is forced to do anything, I just find it disappointing.
What can be said is that there is huge potential for new “creators”* to grow in popularity, since there’s so little to see right now you could suggest to an artist friend friend to post on here and they would surely get some attention right away, they wouldn’t be drowned out by a sea of posts, so they don’t need to excel to make an impact.
*tangent on terminology
(I don’t really like this term, it sounds like boxing people into either of two roles: creator or consumer, which, don’t get me wrong, is kind of accurate in general, most either “consume” only or they mostly create and consume very little. But using these gives me weird vibes, like we just accept that these roles are normal and we shouldn’t strive to each contribute our little bit to the landscape by trying our own hand sometimes, even if it’s bad (and it will be at the beginning for everyone).
I’m a game developer, and you can find my engine project at @PixelPerfectEngine
I also sometimes draw or do other similar stuff, and beg some of the smaller creators I’m following to get into the Fediverse, especially as Twitter is supressing their reach.
