I noticed that a lot of the posts on Lemmy are news, memes, and interesting discussions. I like the regular flow of content we have, and I find a lot of it engaging.
However, maybe it’s just me, but I haven’t seen a lot of people sharing projects that they personally worked on, be it art, games, programs, music, etc. I’ve been working on a programming project for a year now, and I’ve thought about sharing it on Lemmy to see what people think of it, but the lack of projects from other people deters me. My imposter syndrome also kicks into high gear and tells me that my creations just aren’t good enough to be on Lemmy, and I shouldn’t taint people’s feeds with my mediocre endeavors; after all, I and plenty of other people are enjoying the content here as-is.
So, I’m interested to hear about others’ perspectives: Would you like to see more user-created projects and art, or would you prefer to primarily see more news and focused discussions instead?
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Yes, it’s a great place. I would suggest trying to find a community here relating to your stuff.
The idea of something being “not good enough for Lemmy” kinda amuses me a little bit. I mean, I get we’re trying to do some decent stuff around here, but look around. This place is still pretty roughshod.
We had a post about not pooping for 3 days as one of the main things to happen here. Any art project is good enough for lemmy lol
Nothing is good enough for Lemmy. Anything you post will inevitably be downvoted. Because users here care more about making sure the world knows they don’t personally like something than about encouraging original content.
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God haha that is bad. I do not know why people are like this, but for me personally all my posts across two accounts are at above 95% ratio, so not every post is thoroughly downvoted.
The one type of post that always seems to get downvoted is any low-level question about any particular field, are beginners just not supposed to have questions?
You’ve got nothing to lose, why not?
Keep in mind that it isn’t Lemmy you are sharing it with. You’re sharing it with the Fediverse. Lemmy is like your AOL dial up connection to the wider Fediverse.
There are tons of creative / art / project focused communities here, you just don’t tend to see them in the All feed for obvious reasons. Find one where your project fits, post it, worst that can happen is nobody sees it which isn’t exactly the end of the world.
If you’re struggling to figure out where it would fit, let us know vaguely what it is and maybe we can help! Also like someone else suggested [email protected] is a good general catch-all.
I’ve shared my “MS Paint”-like sockpuppet parody impressions over at !sockpuppetsociety as well as my own twists on memes and anime screenshot comics and such in !animepics, !animemes, etc. If I can post this and this and this and this, you can post something you made too.
Just find the right community for your art and maybe some people will enjoy it.
Don’t be surprised if people blow raspberries at your work though; that’s just kind of what people do with art. :p
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
I think the main reason lemmy is mostly news, memes and discussion atm is that thats something everyone can do/ participate in. And since there arent that many users right now, thats what most content is.
Though I for one would be very happy to see such projects: self-made art, music, crafting, cooking, whatever else people are up to. And I dont think im alone in that
Not mentioned yet, but [email protected] is a good place to share art specifically.
I second this. I’ve seen some great stuff there.
Yes please share.
Be the change you want to see in Lemmy.
I’ve been working on a graphic novel and have toyed with the idea of creating an instance and posting it here, chapter by chapter as I finish them, but sequential gallery-like image hosting is pretty bad and clunky, iirc. Does anyone know if there are any improvements slated in that regard, or if there are any solutions or workarounds to that effect?
It probably makes more sense to host your novel somewhere else and post links to it chapter by chapter.
I’d suggest doing one of the following:
- Host the images on a site that already supports image galleries and link to that. Most image hosts are kind of annoying, but this is an understandable way to do it if you don’t want to run a website. (Maybe someone can chime in with a suggestion for whatever they think is the least annoying image gallery host in 2023.)
- Host the images yourself on a simple website. Webcomic artists have been doing that for many years, so there are lots of examples to draw from. (e.g. Gunnerkrigg Court)
- Zip the images up chapter by chapter and either self-host the zip or toss it on a file host like catbox.moe. If you structure it as a .cbz (i.e. zip up a folder with the images named in order like 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, … and just change the extension from .zip to .cbz) then a number of document viewers (like evince) can be used to view the image sequence – or people can just unpack the images and use their favorite image viewer on their computer.
Thanks for the detailed reply! It’s a lot to think about, but I’ll definitely be mulling over the options! :)
Can’t speak for everyone, but I’d love to see more personal projects done by others posted on Lemmy–whether it’s something god-teir or mediocre (because well, what you may call mediocre, some might call pretty good. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and all that).
Tldr: I say POST AWAY! I WANNA SEE YOUR PROJECTS!
As I’ve progressed in skill in some hobbies, I see people posting “Incredible work! I love ______!” on something that, to be honest, is mediocre at best.
But guess what! It is incredible work, because someone put their time and skill into it, and every new thing they make is advancing their skill. Whether you personally have surpassed that level, or not, is irrelevant.
I love seeing people post their rough drafts, their works in progress, the thing they JUST got into last week and this is their first attempt.
Every master craftsman started out with their first project. And it probably wasn’t very good. But who cares, it’s their passion, and they stuck with it.
I make knives and swords as a hobby, and sell some on occasion. I actually still have my very first knife sitting on my bench. I use it every time I make a new one. My second knife was bought by a friend for $40, and he still has it. Won’t sell it back to me even though I’ve offered more recent ones in trade plus the original 40. Because I made it, and even though more recent stuff may look fancier, and probably much higher quality, it was important to me, and therefore to him. I don’t think he realizes how much hearing that meant to me.
So sure, a couple people might go in pointing out flaws and calling it bad, but you made it, you put time and effort into it, it’s worthy of my screen time. I’m excited to see what you change or improve on next time!
Maybe we should grow c/imadethis Edit: trying a proper way to link… [email protected]
Interface is telling me you have two replies but won’t let me see them so if this is a repeat, apologies! But [email protected] is already an active thing, probably don’t need two :D
Also see my other comment in this thread for an off-the-top-of-my-head list of creative project type communities.
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That does sound like me!
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
Thanks bot. I have already fixed it.
I have a community for my music project, but in my experience most project sharing on the Fediverse occurs on Mastodon. There are a few Lemmy communities for production-related discussions but they don’t get much traffic or visibility.
Mastodon facilitates producer talk very well. From what I’ve seen, it also works well for visual artists. If you don’t have an account then it might be worth signing up and checking it out.
At the same time, it would be great to have more sharing and discussion occur here on Lemmy. I’m always happy to see others’ work, even if they are just beginners.
Definitely. There is a small but growing community at [email protected] for example. There are many creative communities here.
Thanks for sharing that, and to add on, so far I’ve found:
Both of which specialise in members sharing their own work.
Brilliant
My imposter syndrome also kicks into high gear and tells me that my creations just aren’t good enough to be on Lemmy, and I shouldn’t taint people’s feeds with my mediocre endeavors; after all, I and plenty of other people are enjoying the content here as-is.
A cool thing with Lemmy (or the fedi) is that it’s not yet full of professional artists trying to get sponsor and sell you stuff. So even if you’re an amateur please share. We need to see more “sloppy content” done with “real finger”, during the 2 hour free you had between work and cooking/eating dinner.
slop is an aesthetic ive recently got into. everyone should post their garbagecore creations, its cool.
