I was just thinking about this, when I'm facing an issue, the first thing I do is go to a search engine and usually there's a Reddit post. But I don't want to ask there. And the only way we're going to build up the info for folks to find us and come here is for us to just start asking here. On the Fediverse. We need to build up that mountain of knowledge that Reddit has and will always have. So we should be championing ANYONE asking questions here. Even if we think it's obvious and we think you can just Google it. There was a time where you literally couldn't just Google it. That was built over time. We need to build that here. So start asking your questions here! Find the answers and then post your answer to your own question. Or let someone do it for you. We need to build the knowledge here to be found. It's not just about people looking for alternatives. We need our knowledge to be more valuable than their knowledge.

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[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I want to create a beat making community and make it live, post pro tips and things I watch and learned but the problem is that I don't have much time aside from work nowadays and so setting up that routine of making a community live is hard.

I think I should at least try tho

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Absolutely! Or start having conversations in a current community and if enough are interested build a new community. I've been adding content to my little communities and even though they're not very active I just keep posting. The founders of Reddit said they had multiple accounts and were acting like it was social until it took off. I'm not saying we got to that length, because I find that creepy, but we need that tenacity.

[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

It's crazy because I typed beatmaking into Lemmy and found a post I made a while ago :)) (because it's so empty about this subject)

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

That's ok! It happens. maybe fokls don't know it exists! Are there other communities that align with beat making? Maybe start there and talk with folks there?

[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I'm currently creating it using the website and I feel so quirky trying to come up with the community title. I think I'm gonna keep it simple lol

EDIT: here it is, (!musicmaking@sh.itjust.works I need to make it look better tho

[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

No I meant that positively: Lemmy doesn't seem to know about music making yet :)) I've only found my content when typing into the search bar !

I need to create this :) Let me look how to do it with Voyager

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'll say this, Owncast has quite a few streamers into music as well. A lot of folks looked for alternative music making platforms during Covid, because as Gabe Kangas told me, Twitch was cracking down while everyone was home. Maybe check there as well for a community?

[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

That would be amazing, at the moment I feel a little down because I need to unlearn a lot of beginner things I did to progress and it's very hard.

I've been stuck only making loop and no songs, so I gotta unlearn most of what I know and start again if I want to finish my songs.

So I'll maybe go there to have some advice ehehe

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Best way imo is to talk to folks. Find a mentor. Even folks I never thought would know about X had thoughts or suggestions. Hell my wife just helped me with a thumbnail and she's not an artist, but she's been doing school presentations and had massively useful constructive criticism. :-)

[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I have my close friends that help and motivate me a lot but... I originally live in France and moved to Canada for a job.

I'm completely uprooted now and don't know anyone in Toronto. In case you're wondering why someone would abandon their life to move to Canada, I'm 18 and wanted to explore the world (still do), have a taste of the possibilities.

I'm happy with it, I'm just a little bit lonely since I arrived one month ago ;) so music making is hard alone, you constantly have to reinvent yourself and have lots of self-awarness