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southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Well, on lemmy, the only reliable writingprompts c/ I know of is on lemmy.world, unless someone has made a different one. There may be one on lemmy.ml, but what with the whole .ml issue ongoing, I dunno how willing I would be to do much there for a bit. Again, that’s just what I’m aware of.

Mastodon and calckey have the most active writing communities imo. And there’s a strong sense of community in that regard. The problem for a writer wanting to do long form is the character limit being very small. But you won’t lack for prompts and support.

There’s !storydrop@lemmy.world as well, though it’s pretty new.

There’s an c/writing on all the bigger instances, and kbin.

I think the best route is a lemmy or kbin author account combined with mastodon. Instances rarely matter in terms of where you join, so long as it’s a fairly stable and not heavily defederated/defederating one.

I’ve looked over the other options, and they’re pretty meh tbh, for a writer in specific.

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OwenEverbinde@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This is one hell of a write up, stranger. Thank you!

Mastodon and calckey have the most active writing communities imo.

It is very difficult to search for something when you don’t know it exists. Now that I know Mastodon and calckey have a vibrant writing community that you recommend, I know there’s some value to finding it and learning how to immerse my account in that community. Much appreciated.

I think the best route is a lemmy or kbin author account combined with mastodon. Instances rarely matter in terms of where you join, so long as it’s a fairly stable and not heavily defederated/defederating one.

You even gave a recommended route!? Seriously, you have my gratitude. This is awesome.

By “combined with mastodon” do you mean to create one new account at lemmy or kbin and one at mastodon? Or do you mean to create one new account at lemmy or kbin and use it to connect with the writing communities at mastodon?

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- southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Create one of each. It’s easy to follow your lemmy account on your mastodon. So, when you make posts, you can boost them and it’s sorta like crossposting it. Iirc, you’d have to toot a link for anything you write in comments, but that’s easy to do.
  
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  - OwenEverbinde@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Wonderful. Thank you South Samurai. I’ll do just that.
    
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