Creatives of whichever fields, whether writers, artists, musicians, meme-makers, developers, film makers, and the like and/or communities, I’m curious to know about some of the people around the fediverse creating some original stuff.
I know of a few over on the Mastodon side, and some communities forming here, but I imagine there are way more I’m unaware of.
*puts on sunglasses*
My time to shine.
Ok so in terms of Lemmy communities, I have a list of a load of them here although admittedly some have since died off and I should probably do a trawl for new ones (adding that to my weekend todo list as we speak).
On Mastodon, there used to be a server called artisan.chat that was great for this, but it shut down and most of us moved to either wandering.shop or sunny.garden so the local timelines there are a nice place to find people (the former is much bigger than the latter, and also has a lot of writers).
I’d also recommend checking Fediverse Explorer on occasion to find people who aren’t federated with your server and therefore aren’t showing up in your Mastodon search. Example search for #knitting.
My craft account gets a decent bit of reach among fibre crafters so if you’re looking for anything specific in that area hit me up and I’d be happy to boost or otherwise get some more eyeballs on your request post. Likewise with my other account for gamedev, and if you are interested in game projects / art then again the local feed on that server is great as well as peoplemaking.games too.
PeerTube has a surprising amount of creative / maker content but it’s hard to find because of the weird way they handle federation. fedi.video tries to get round it a bit by curating videos from across PT into playlists, often creative-themed, so you might find something there. There’s also makertube.net which is as the name suggests focused on attracting that sort of thing, but it recently got an influx of retro gaming YouTubers flooding everything with their massive backlogs so you might need to dig a bit more than usual.
Hope some of that helps!
What is your flow to look at both Mastodon and Lemmy? For example, do you have them both on your phone, but spend more time on Lemmy than Mastodon, or your laptop and you switch between the two? I do wish they communicated better so we could communicate on each without having both open. Sharing from each other would be great too.
I’m not really a phone person tbh, replying to you now from mobile but that’s rare for me, mostly I just use the phone apps as notification collectors.
That said, I’ve been terminally online since the turn of the millennium so flitting between various websites and apps and generally being a bit of a “power user” comes naturally.
I use Mastodon in advanced mode with various columns pinned with my hashtag searches in. Lemmy I stick with the default web UI because certain niche things tend not to work in the alternate frontends and I do a lot of niche stuff 😅
In terms of posting between the two, I often do post to Lemmy via Mastodon just to get the conversation from both places all happening in one thread. Works well as long as you bear the various quirks in mind, but I hope that’ll be improved over time as well as asking the option to crosspost the other way round (ie Lemmy to Mastodon).
Would be happy to do a write-up on exactly how that works and what the limitations are if anyone would find it useful!
Edit: forgot to add, one of my pinned Mastodon columns actually shows posts from some of my fave-but-tiny Lemmy communities, so that way I don’t miss anything.
Thanks for the thorough response. Laptop makes sense with the open columns for the mastodon, I liked tweetdeck for that very reason. I forgot they had it tbh.
That’s exactly it, it seems quiet and isolated between the two. If we could share some of that great art, ideas and conversations between each other easily, it would really thrive. I’m not even saying thriving to attract more users, I’m not sure if that’s what anyone wants. I think the quality would thrive.
I mean we can share stuff easily, just only in one direction for now. It’s still worth doing though, have managed to introduce people from the two platforms and get them chatting that way fairly often. It’s also great for question-type posts, since obviously the more answers the better.
And as a bonus, being able to follow Lemmy communities on Mastodon (I wouldn’t do it for the big spammy ones but it’s great for smaller communities) means I can just jump in with a reply straight from Mastodon without switching tabs to Lemmy which is nice!
Think I’m still in the “ok this isn’t perfect but wow it’s clever and I am in childlike amazement” phase haha