I'm new to Beehaw, but have been enjoying the enviroment so far.
Me and my girlfriend are twitch streamers (I also upload to youtube), and I was wondering if there is a community here for small content creators to help each other. She uses Discord for that but I don't care for it personally.
I didn't see anything when I searched, but that very well could have been user error as I'm new to the fediverse.
Not that I know of there isn't. But I'm slowly coming back to creating after taking a two year hiatus so I'd be very interested in joining a community like that!
Yeah I'm not sure if Beehaw would make a community for that tbh. (mods/admins feel free to correct this) They just did a survey like two-ish weeks ago (?) which asked the Beeple what communities should be added. It also might be considered too spammy/self-promotey for Beehaw? I know that's not generally their vibe. But it could be made on another instance that allows you to create your own communities if you were super inclined to get that started? You'd have at least one subscriber if you did haha (it me, I'm subscriber).
It doesn't have to be a spammy place if we don't let it. That's what happens with low quality engagement and moderation. We could create an actual community instead of just people promoting themselves.
If beehaw doesn't want to be that place that's ok, it seems like a good idea to me though.
I didn't mean to imply it was a bad idea, on the contrary, I think it's a great idea and something I'd like to be a part of. I just wasn't sure what a small content creator community would look like if not self promotion and boosting each other.
It could pertain to issues they're having as a content creator, but that's going to vary widely depending on the content they're making. If it's a twitch streamer like yourself specific questions might be better suited to the Gaming community. If it's for art/writing content creation (like me) issues/questions might be better suited for the Creative community.
That's more what I meant, what would the small content creator community look like that couldn't already be better served by the specific content communities? And how would we prevent it from becoming a ladder of self promotion?
It is twofold. one: support in general, and creating a schedule where people watch each other together and greatly boost the likelihood that that stream will be suggested to someone else. Engagement in the chat also greatly boosts the likelihood that new viewers will comment/stay longer.
The other thing is full time streamers live a very specific kind of life that is generally very different from most people. I feel there is value in congregating with other people with the same goals and mindset.
By having a community with schedules/party trains streamers learn about each other and form friendships, and in theory everyone wins. I'm ok with streaming to 0 people and then people watching it later but it's a lot more fun when you have all your friends in the chat with you.
Additionally, certain games (like among us just as an example) are way more fun when you're playing in a voice call with people you know as opposed to random people. Having this sort of community makes a lot of games fun that otherwise wouldn't be. High skill multiplayer games might take months of learning to get good at, but if everyone is new this isn't a problem.
I will think more about what could be done to mitigate the potential issues you mention, but from what I've seen the best way is just to remain small and have a strong focus on community building. Beehaw seems to already have a very compatible culture, although I must admit I am new here.
Oh okay, I think I misunderstood. You're not wanting to make a community for the general sense of content creators (ex: writing, poetry, comics, blogging, animation, etc.) but more so a community centered around streamers specifically.
That makes more sense! I think that a community like that could be made if enough people on Beehaw wanted it? Idk the answer to that though.
lemmy.world will definitely give you a bigger pool of potential subscribers to pull from but Beehaw is defederated from lemmy.world at the moment. So people from Beehaw couldn't participate until we refederate with them.
There was like, a whole thing. I still see memes from lemmy.world users about it whenever I log into that account lol. To summarize, Lemmy moderation tools kinda suck for the time being and to maintain the chill Beehaw atmosphere it was easier to defederate until better mod tools get developed because they have open registration so a lot of trolls and bad actors from lemmy.world were coming into Beehaw bein' dicks.
Divisions by zero has some good vibes from what I've experienced and federated with pretty much everyone that I know of. Their main focus is piracy but they allow you to create your own community so there's things like Silly Cats and Screenwriting on there already.
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