This podcast is for the #creators! We break down the daily routine of a full-time creator — it me! What time do I get up? How much sleep? What happens before creation-phase. What happens during? After? How do I create and simultaneously run a small business? YMMV, this is how we do it.
scottsigler.com/blogs/podcast/deep-cuts-46
https://scottsigler.com/blogs/podcast/deep-cuts-46

https://www.europesays.com/uk/12782/ ‘Book Boyfriends’ and ‘Shadow Daddies’: the men cashing in on romantasy #Books #Creators #Entertainment #Tech #UK #UnitedKingdom

#Creators’ Earnings Calculator – Beta Launch - https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/03/20/creators-earnings-calculator-beta-launch/ "a dynamic, open access database allowing you to explore authoritative and independently gathered data on creators’ earnings in the UK." lower than many might think

"There’s also been an impulse by #creators concerned about #AI to dramatically limit how people can access their work…This too closes off the #commons, making it more challenging or expensive for those “every single human beings” described in #openaccess manifestos to access the material that was originally intended to be #commongoods.

Often by trying to wall off those considered to be bad actors, people wall off the very people they intended to give access to."

https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/

@mike's terrific fireside chat with @molly0xfff on digital sovereignty, aka technological self-determination (taking control of your digital life and data), is up on the SXSW site. Don’t sleep on this talk, especially if you’re a writer or other kind of creator. With plenty of high-quality Q&A too, one person in the audience said it was “worth the badge.”
https://schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/PP147154

(We’re working on getting all the panels and talks from the #FediverseHouse edited and posted. We’ll be back when they’re up.)

A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content https://www.theverge.com/news/626139/reddit-luigi-mangione-automod-tool #Creators #Politics #Policy #Reddit #News #Tech

A thought for #today for #writers, #artists, and any kind of #creators.

Hi #LGBTQIA+,

I like long-form content on YouTube, and watch through FreeTube because it has no ads and sponsors, and I'm looking for some female creators to watch.

As someone exploring my fluid identity, I'd love recommendations for creators who cater to women, and LGBTQ+ creators are a big plus!

While acknowledging the capitalist nature of it all, I find that female-created content resonates with my own journey of femininity and gender fluidity.

These are some of the creators I'm currently into, to help you understand my taste:
- Estee Lalonde: https://www.esteelalonde.com/video
- Anna Newton: https://www.theannaedit.com
- Lynn Saga: https://www.youtube.com/@lynnsaga1397

Got any favorites? Share them below!

#Fediverse #Creators
Friends...I know there's been discourse around these parts about being annoyed with folks marketing/selling their goods/services/creations (myself included).

If I may, I'd like to humbly remind some of you that we were already pushed out of the giant corporate social media spaces. And if you're not marketing online where people are, you will never succeed.

That often leads us here (literally and figuratively). May of us use our talents to earn what little money we can...

#Fedizens #Fediverse
Friends! I've made an effort to become platform independent and take control of my #content. I'm tired of finding out that I've wasted my time building a platform for my content only to find the platform or audience changing.

To that end, I've decided to walk the talk and reclaim #ownership on my own platform. I invite you to stop by and if you feel so inclined, let's break out those #RSS aggregators and start supporting directly!
#Creators

https://utc.kielenking.com

The sociological significance of TikTok

This is excellent by Taylor Lorenz and a great counterpoint to my tendency to frame algorithmic filtering as an intrinsically destructive thing:

Since 2020, TikTok has served as a major hub for progressive speech and activism. The ban will deplatform thousands of progressive content creators and skew online discourse toward conservative ideologies. It will consolidate media influence within right leaning platforms like Meta and X. Over time, I believe this reconfiguration will permanently alter the political landscape of the creator economy.

When Vine ceased operations, social media was still in its formative years. Though the app formally shut down in 2017, it quietly shuttered months earlier in the fall of 2016, and creators had begun a mass exodus a full year before that, when it became clear that the app was in a death spiral. Platforms like YouTube and Instagram were still establishing their footholds, and the concept of the “creator economy” was years away from existence. Vine’s shutdown displaced creators, but the relatively small scale of the platform meant that the ripple effects were contained.

TikTok, however, is arguably the most culturally and politically relevant social media platform today. Not only is it a huge economic engine (TikTok contributed $24.2 billion to the GDP in 2023 and supports at least 224,000 American jobs), the app democratized content creation by disrupting the follower-based model of social media, allowing creators from a wider range of backgrounds to amass significant followings quickly. TikTok let “average” people enter the content creator industry without them having to invest an enormous amount of time or resources into building a platform.

https://www.usermag.co/p/the-great-creator-reset

Google's Core Updates have hit me! I am overwhelmed! I have been using Flipboard, but my website traffic is still inconsistent.
Why Would I even care about "Being On The Fediverse?" Managing my Flipboard Account is already way too much for me.
The Fediverse and Flipboard complement each other in curating, consuming, and sharing content: Translation = more visibility.
#Fediverse, #Flipboard, #Creators, #Content, #Curators, #Bloggers, #Publishers https://medium.com/flipboard4business/why-creators-need-the-flipboard-and-fediverse-in-2025-a55137478534

In #2024 there were 64 3rd-party #crowdfunding campaigns for #DungeonCrawlClassics #DCC #RPG

https://goodman-games.com/blog/2024/12/31/200-indie-dcc-crowdfundings-and-counting/

I have to say that #GoodmanGames are extremely supportive of their #indie #creators, with a hand-wavey license and active promotion of 3rd-party content.

On 14 March they will host their second creator summit (on Zoom). $20 gets you access to all the seminars (including access to all the recordings). https://goodman-games.com/blog/2024/11/24/announcing-the-dcc-indie-creator-summit/

For all #creators, #tinkerers, #createch interested in working in at the intersection of technology, design and making consider joining the Open Hardware Summit hosted by the Open Source Hardaware Association in Edinburgh, May 30-31, 2025. Call for proposals for workshops, talks, exibitors is here: http://2025.oshwa.org/

Your AI-generated logos are making me sick, folks. The "uncanny valley" effect when I see AI-generated images makes my physically ill

(hoping to tamp it down to "detect, but not make me feel ill").

Thanks to everyone who CW's those (even better, don't post them). Also, if you're a creator/trying to sell something here, note that some of us won't buy whatever you are selling/support your cause if you're using an AI-generated logo. I feel like I'm going to be among the minority of those doing so, but anyway.

A better way to spend a billion
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#comics #kevincomics #creators