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Is Lemmy a good place to share personal projects and art?

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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  • 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).

    • Maybe we should grow c/imadethis Edit: trying a proper way to link… !imadethis@lemmy.world

    • 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!

  • 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

  • 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.

  • I like art and stuff, I just don't find it much. Over at !13thfloor (@13thfloor) the original creator was encouraging it so I did write an OC text using cut-up method and the lyrics that had been posted there and posted it.

    Few days later I got someone contacting me asking to use it for some kind of art magik performance. So that was nice.

    Not sure how to get that stuff happening more though.

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