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?

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[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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).