2y ago

I want an alt account for writing. Is there a corner of the Fediverse you recommend?

I want to respond to writing prompts, but from a separate account. That way, if someone enjoys a story, they can scroll through my (alt account's) history for more writing without needing to dig through all of the dramatic, vitriolic, shit-stirring my main account will be regularly diving into.

I was wondering if one of you wonderful people was familiar with some corner of the Fediverse perfect for this sort of use? Or would you recommend I create the account here on Lemmy?

If I do go outside of Lemmy, I want to go somewhere capable of commenting on lemmy.ml and lemmy.world posts (in particular, commenting in the WritingPrompts communities on those servers).
I would prefer to join a public instance, like I did when I signed up for Mastodon and Lemmy.
Note: as mentioned above I have used Lemmy and Mastodon so far.

So: is there a part of the Fediverse I ought to be examining for this? WriteFreely, for example? Micro.blog perhaps?

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Outside of lemmy I suggest writing.exchange
Inside of lemmy, try literature.cafe
- Interesting small instance
  
  Looks as though it span up very recently. But I can see it being a huge success.
- Interesting small instance
Sounds like you want a blog - I list Write.as (the paid-for version of writefreely) and Plu.me in my Fediverse alternatives list, but there are, or will be, ActivityPub plugins for WordPress and Tumblr.
Definitely NOT writefreely. It is a nice tool, if you want to have a minimalistic blog others on the fediverse can follow, but it is extremly bad at interacting with literally anything, yet. (This might change in the future, but at the moment, WF is not really made for your use case.)
- Thank you kindly. I feel like this answer supplements Samurai's answer really well and gives a solid illustration of their point when they said,
  I’ve looked over the other options, and they’re pretty meh tbh, for a writer in specific.
  Now I know what's so "meh" about at least one of them.
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.
- I think i saw a community called keepwriting.
  
  Yup! I think it's lemmy.world
- 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?
  
  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.
all i have is write down ideas in notepad or LibreOffice

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