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me_irl (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by herrwoland to c/me_irl

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[–] Theharpyeagle 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It's tough because posting art online and getting a lot of unsolicited (and often unconstructive) criticism can be very demoralizing to less seasoned artists. I often see "well you shouldn't have posted it online if you didn't want comments" and an idea that only "good" art deserves to be seen.

When I was a young teen, I saw a thread on Reddit asking people to post their poems, so I posted one I was reasonably proud of. Only response was someone telling me it sucked. Kinda broke something in me that day, I don't think I've written a poem since.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I'd love an art community more focused on growing artists. I don't have much constructive criticism to offer, but I love watching people grow as artists.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They're out there. Just off the top of my head, there's https://lemmy.world/c/drawing.

I think that's the one I've posted some of my nice doodles to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] kamenlady 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When I was a young teen, I saw a thread on Reddit

I'd never thought i would be reading a sentence like this. Now, this makes me feel really, really old.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Reddit is almost 20 years old. People can be born and become adults in that time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

We know. It just doesn't feel that long ago.

Don't even get me started on digg

[–] kamenlady 2 points 7 months ago

Sure, but I'm getting older and experienced that "oh, the 80s were 20 years ago" feeling, when i read that. Just like grrgyle wrote, it doesn't feel like so much time passed.

[–] lanolinoil 2 points 7 months ago

I'm sorry that sucks -- My first internet community was DeviantArt back 20 years ago where it was really positive. I think that kind of did the opposite to me.

Now a days though -- almost everything I post on Reddit gets removed as spam -- it's like an impossible system controlled by that gallowboob CCP robot