Best way imo is to talk to folks. Find a mentor. Even folks I never thought would know about X had thoughts or suggestions. Hell my wife just helped me with a thumbnail and she's not an artist, but she's been doing school presentations and had massively useful constructive criticism. :-)
I don't LOVE business personally lol :-D but I do love the Fediverse and I'm going to attempt to "business" it at least. :-D NonProfit, because we've been down the route of Profit before and we saw where that got us.
Block them. I can't do anything about the bullies, I won't bully anyone and if it comes off as bullying, maybe there's a misunderstanding from me.
We can only build our communities how we want them and ignore the rest. Bullying is going to happen sadly, but we have the opportunity to push that shit away and build a welcoming and wholesome community.
We'll disagree sometimes, but we need to do our best to be as respectful as possible.
I'll say this, Owncast has quite a few streamers into music as well. A lot of folks looked for alternative music making platforms during Covid, because as Gabe Kangas told me, Twitch was cracking down while everyone was home. Maybe check there as well for a community?
Preservation is so MASSIVELY important imo atm. With Internet Archive under fire, Reddit and Twitter closing APIs, Google shutting down fucking everything, we need OUR internet, not theirs and we need to protect that which is precious to us.
That's ok! It happens. maybe fokls don't know it exists! Are there other communities that align with beat making? Maybe start there and talk with folks there?
Why not share it here? WHy not free the information? Someone could delete their Reddit post or Google could change their algorithm again tomorrow to suit their own needs. We're currently accepting the old system that's showing it can't be trusted. I say free the information. I might be naive though, but I have to try at least.
I think all knowledge should be shared with everyone. And we have the opportunity to make sure that knowledge we're giving out stays free forever on the Fediverse.
Deleting them only deletes them visibily. They don't provide Reddit value for customers, but they're still in the system somewhere in backups or in a DB, etc.
But still, I'm saying, having conversations. Start talking more here. Ask and answer, find others with similar interests. Let's dog food this Fediverse!
Yeah we need to pivot to being more open. But not even just Lemmy. Post anywhere. Anyone can build anything. The Fediverse isn't Lemmy. I posted on Piefed.social. :-)
You're referring to https://gohugo.io/ the static site generator?