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?
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.
This statement is false
The lack of project-based content is just due to size and a lack of engagement. Try engaging and see if anyone else joins in 😜
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
Feel free! Probably !programming@programming.dev could be a good place to do this?
You can also try !imadethis@lemm.ee
Yes please share.
this is the reason there are 50,000 instances across the fediverse. there are absolutely instances meant for personal project content like crafting.
the searching across instances is still stupid, i know there are a few projects out there attempting to build cross-fediverse content searching.
so it really depends on your project, and how specific a community you want to post it in
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: !sockpuppetsociety@lemmy.ca, !animepics@reddthat.com, !animemes@ani.social
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 !imadethis@lemm.ee is a good general catch-all.
Not mentioned yet, but !artshare@lemmy.world is a good place to share art specifically.
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.
You’ve got nothing to lose, why not?
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?
only one way to find out, nerd
Be the change you want to see in Lemmy.
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.
