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Is Lemmy a good place to share personal projects and art? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by seal_of_approval@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] semi_sentient@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] e0qdk@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It probably makes more sense to host your novel somewhere else and post links to it chapter by chapter.

I'd suggest doing one of the following:

Host the images on a site that already supports image galleries and link to that. Most image hosts are kind of annoying, but this is an understandable way to do it if you don't want to run a website. (Maybe someone can chime in with a suggestion for whatever they think is the least annoying image gallery host in 2023.)
Host the images yourself on a simple website. Webcomic artists have been doing that for many years, so there are lots of examples to draw from. (e.g. Gunnerkrigg Court)
Zip the images up chapter by chapter and either self-host the zip or toss it on a file host like catbox.moe. If you structure it as a .cbz (i.e. zip up a folder with the images named in order like 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, ... and just change the extension from .zip to .cbz) then a number of document viewers (like evince) can be used to view the image sequence -- or people can just unpack the images and use their favorite image viewer on their computer.

[–] semi_sentient@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the detailed reply! It’s a lot to think about, but I’ll definitely be mulling over the options! :)