Hey creative community! 👋 I've been diving deep into how the digital landscape is evolving for artists, and I'm genuinely excited to share some insights about a platform that's quietly revolutionizing how creatives build their careers: Substack. After watching an incredible breakdown by a photographer who's been consistently using the platform for over 3 years (and building 5.5K engaged subscribers!), I'm convinced this might be the alternative social media solution many of us have been searching for. Why Substack Hits Different for CreativesUnlike traditional social platforms that feel like you're constantly feeding an algorithm beast, Substack operates on a fundamentall…
Having a good social media management strategy is very important. For me, I develop a content calendar, interact with my followers, and monitor my stats. This has helped me to establish a good online presence and find people with whom I share common views with. The trick here is consistency so I aim at posting everyday and respond to comments very quickly.
Email lists? Discord communities? Going back to forums? If all major social platforms vanished overnight, what would your backup plan be? How has our reliance on these platforms changed content creation?
Do you currently use any decentralized web platforms? Anything that is part of the fediverse falls under this category, ActivityPub connects a bunch of websites together which makes it easier to locate platforms that aren't made by big corporations such as Meta social media platforms. I believe that the internet is in a state where soon the bigger names are going to eventually fail and many people are going to find alternatives. I highly recommend looking into integrating your projects to the Fediverse if you can. I'm hoping more forum software will go down this route eventually.
Hey everyone! 👋 So I was browsing around this morning and stumbled across something that made me pause and think. Invision Community (you know, the forum software) just posted that they're slowing down their development releases. Now normally, when a platform says "we're slowing down," that's usually code for "we're dying" or "we ran out of money." But this actually feels... different? Here's what caught my attention: They were doing weekly releases since their v5 launch - which sounds awesome in theory, right? New features every week! But they basically said "okay, we're stable now, let's actually think about what we're building instead of just shipping stuff." And …
I recently got an idea for a new community, I decided to pick MyBB for this community but I think it's a bit outdated by 2025 terms. So I'm wanting to switch platforms but I'm not sure exactly which platform I want to switch to. If I had the money, I would pick Invision but I can't afford it. I also don't want to purchase another VPS account to host a NodeBB or Discourse instance. So I'd like to hear some feedback from people here on which platform I should switch to! I'm thinking about either vBulletin perhaps or Xenforo? vBulletin is cheaper and comes with a lot more features than Xenforo does out of the box. Plus I feel Xenforo as of late has been lacking with updates.…
When I recently did a YouTube search on just the single keyword “Bluesky” the results were completely filled with video after video of “Bluesky is dying” or “Bluesky death of being woke.” I understand that negative or even hate-filled clickbait will be gathering those sweet sweet clicks and watch-time but, is there a movement of Bluesky users going back to extwitter? I left extwitter way back in 2022 among those who saw the writing on the wall with Elon taking control of the platform. It was always becoming a cesspool long before he came on board and with him at the helm, it quickly dove into reaches of even worse filth. Hate speech being pushed through as normative, alon…
