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Do you post (about) your writing outside of writing sites? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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Posting what we write on websites dedicated to writing seems obvious, but do you post your fic on websites that are not dedicated to writing, like social medias? Or do you keep the full fic on its fic site but still post about it elsewhere?

I personally have trouble posting about my writing, it always feels like it's not the right place for that. Like all the people interested in reading fanfic are already checking fanfic sites and it would just be annoying to most users of other sites to see posts about it. And while I'm sure part of it is just personal history with social medias, I'm unsure how much of it has basis in reality, because it's true that I almost never see fanfic-related posts where I lurk.

What's your opinion on that?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahhh, I think I see what you are saying! In that case if it causes such grief to do in the first place, I'd honestly stop doing it (I did for some sites before I learned of how nasty they were getting). It's not worth trying to build up when it causes that much dread.

(Oh goodness! Good perspective to have, but do make sure to protect yourself if they start trying to dig into your personal life! Good luck!)

Yeah. As you saw, one of the fandoms I am in is one of the biggest and thus very easy to find even in non-fandom friendly sites. But most works I am into are not even 1/5k the size of it and thus I wouldn't find anyone to connect to even on sites meant for fandom interaction. So in spades your experience is very much shared!

(So much! I may get mocked for my language skills at times but at least I try!)

Kbin has a lot differences than Reddit despite sharing an inspirational point. I find myself confused about multiple things here despite being able to draw from a similar UI experience. But I have been enjoying the many differences! Being able to do microblogs that don't bog down the main threads is a great way to throw a casual mention of working on stuff without feeling like you are putting a spotlight upon yourself. (If you have a question, I'll do my best to answer!)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(Don't worry, so far it's just one (1) idiot anon on AO3 posting on one (1) fic, I deleted the comment, they didn't insist, I doubt it'll go farther. But I'll stay vigilant =) )

I'm not even on Kbin, I'm on Lemmy, and we don't have the microblogging thing here so it doesn't federate given we have no way to display it (and thus I can't post that kind of thing either). I was confused about the voting culture on Reddit but honestly here with the fact that the votes do NOT federate in the same way on every instance I'm not even bothering to think about it, I consider it's just a broken feature and the only thing it can do is prove at least one person saw a message and absolutely nothing else x') I'll keep your offer in mind if a clearer question than a vague "wtf am I doing" comes to me, thank you ♥

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

(ah! good to know it hasn't snowballed into anything more!)

Whoops! Sorry for the assumption. Another thing I love about these federations that other places don't have- the ability to talk to others on entirely different sites!