cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/58932519
Hey everyone, with the new Discord changes, I decided it was a great excuse for me to finally try to ditch discord. I mostly used discord for my creative endeavors through the years (collaborating on projects, help with software - looking at you Blender and Godot, and etc) but now I really only have my small community that I was trying to start back up based on my board game project.
As someone who drifts from project to project, and often tries to find other people who want to participate in projects - this forum is meant to fill two needs:
- A communication and contributor hub for the various open source and creative commons projects I am currently working on, as well as a centralized location to access information and assets for said projects.
- A place for other creative individuals to network, collaborate, and share their own projects - or even simply chat and meet like minded individuals.
I am a huge advocate for the creative commons, open source software, and the overall Libre community that counters the capitalist models that are so prevalent in the online space. While members of this community don’t need to share these same ideals, I would like to foster a community that can lift up and encourage others who contribute to this space. It would be nice if we could create a community where people help and contribute to each others creative endeavors and improve the FOSS/CC community.
And honestly, I kind of miss the days when forums were the primary form of communication, before discord - so I am excited to see if this community can take off at all.
The community is non existent at the moment, but if any of you would be willing to check it out and stick around for a while to see if we can grow - I would be greatly appreciative. If anyone has feedback for improvement or ideas for direction of the forum, I would love to hear any and all constructive criticism.
At least Lemmy has private communities as far as I recall (and I assume the others eitner have it or are working on it as well). Maybe that with an simple ‘application process’ would be a nice alternative to a free forum hoster. Also helps with adoption of the Threadiverse.
That is true - although to host a Lemmy community I would have to fork over some money - which I don’t really mind all that much if the community grows to a decent size - but this is a low risk way to start out.
I honestly might think about changing over to Lemmy server in the future if I the community ever gets established. (I honestly don’t know too much about what hosting a Lemmy server entails, or what the possibilties for customization are, but I’ll have to look into it)