I would appreciate any tips on how to use Mastodon without it causing overwhelm/getting lost in it.
🧠My blend of #neurodivergence has a REAL hard time with this kind of platform (never got Twitter either), but I’m drawn to the community & connection here.
I’m like instantly a confounded 105-year-old when it comes to Mastodon/Twitter 🙃
I’m sure I read a post on one of the communities here recently that was showing off their entry to a Mastodon-based painting competition as well.
As far as things like gaming go obviously that’s a pretty wide topic and it’s gonna depend what you’re looking for. #VideoGames or #Gaming for example gets you a lot of news headlines. Specific game tags e.g #Starfield will get you a mixture of news, streamers, screenshots, memes and of course people aggressively complaining. Or maybe you’re interested in seeing what sorts of games small indie creators are making in which case something like #DevLog might be of interest.
I know your original post is asking for “notable content creators” which it seems like you’re using to mean “big accounts”. But really if it’s interesting content on a topic you enjoy, the size of the account posting it doesn’t matter.
And naturally since you said you’re open to other “quality content” I do also recommend #Knitting because we’re surprisingly active and also cool af.
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....
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.
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Are there any notable content creators that focus on content other than niche tech and US political on Mastodon?
I’m hoping to find more general, less nerdy content or infuriating American news. 99% of what I see and is recommended to me is just that....
For those active across the fediverse, who are some creatives you follow and which creative communities do you enjoy?
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....