dawt 1y ago • 100%
Yeah... Other lemmy instances just don't cut it for me. Beehaw definitely has a quality difference.
dawt 1y ago • 100%
The biggest tragedy of moving off Lemmy for me is that I love having Sync to browse Beehaw from my phone. I'm a mobile user and I really like having a native app to enjoy a community like this. 😭
dawt 1y ago • 100%
Thank you for being upfront and honest about the challenges you're facing. I'd like to also put my vote in for going whitelist only rather than moving off the fediverse altogether. However, I'm a big fan of beehaw and would likely follow a migration, but only if there's a good mobile experience on the new site.
dawt 1y ago • 100%
Yooo that last one sounds amazing. Right up my alley.
dawt 1y ago • 100%
I am not, but I appreciated Brian David Gilbert's video on this! What recipes have you made lately?
dawt 1y ago • 100%
I have found that practical solutions are rarely all or nothing, personally.
Are you against eating meat from a consequentialist perspective, or a deontological one? In my opinion, less meat eaten is better - better for the environment, and less money going into cruel practices around slaughtering animals, etc - even if the reasons for it are varied and not strictly from a standard of moral duty.
dawt 1y ago • 100%
The smoke is so awful to live through, but I do love this photo. It reminds me of traditional Chinese landscape watercolor paintings.
dawt 1y ago • 0%
I don't have much of an opinion on the bioware forums, but man - it's crazy to think about this period as the collapse of web2. I mean, I'm aware of it, but somehow, giving it that title seems so real.
The online spaces I've spent most of my time in are collapsing, and all that'll be left is the shambling, soulless husks of bankrupt cryptocurrencies. I guess we can just go ahead and skip straight to web4?
I'm going to listen to the top 3 upvoted albums and give you my honest unfiltered thoughts. Please explain what makes the album special to you. For context, lyrics are very important to me, so I gravitate to music with good storytelling.
I'm new to the Fediverse, but I've been primarily using it to try and wean myself off a decade+ long reddit addiction. Something I've been thinking about a lot is how people on Lemmy seem to have a misconception about how difficult it is to administer and moderate these platforms. I've read a lot of people talking about how the ability to host your own Lemmy instance gives you the experience of Reddit, but without needing to worry about mods or admins. They are quick to talk about how easy it is to move on from an instance, saying things like "just create your own instance and move on." I think it's true as a lurker that migrating instances is easy and low investment. But losing all the content and community is a huge price to pay. Yes, it's relatively simple to set up an instance, but the difficult thing is keeping it up despite prices and wild fluctuations in users. The owner of the nsfw Lemmy instance, for example, already has thrown in the towel this week, just two weeks after opening a relatively successful instance. He gave up moderating, but couldn't get anyone else to take over hosting the instance. So he is now stuck with that. Honestly, I would be surprised to see that instance sticking around in the same form for much longer. My point is simply that stewarding a community takes a massive amount of time, effort and money on behalf of those hosting and moderating. It takes a lot of trust for people to feel safe investing the time and energy to put down roots. It requires content creators and good engagement. I've chosen Beehaw as my home instance because I find that the admin's mission and commitment to stewarding a specific culture to have the best chance of building a worthwhile community. So thank you to the admins for your work, and I look forward to my time here with you all. Let's create a culture worth fighting for - one that we wouldn't want to leave and move on from at the first sign of drama.
dawt 1y ago • 100%
Omg. I'm so excited to see the finished product. How big will be this mareep end up being?
dawt 1y ago • 100%
I am truly floored by this. I think all of us animators are masochists to an extent, but you must be on another level. Great work.
dawt 1y ago • 100%
Yeah, I'd rather have a thread with a dozen high quality comments than hundreds of bot reposts/low quality buzzwords. I do hope that Lemmy sustains enough activity to have those nice, small conversations though.
dawt 1y ago • 100%
Awesome! Would love to see updates on this one as you move progress!
dawt 1y ago • 100%
Oh wow! Impressive that you did this on the fly!
I feel you on wanting to make things straight from your head, it feels closer to art as a mode of creative self expression.
I have found though, that visual planning and collecting references (even if it's just like, the color of light from one painting, the texture of an ancient piece of pottery, etc. ) actually gives you more opportunities to be creative and helps build a visual library in your mind that you can draw from in the future. It is a lot of work, though, and feels like it slows you down at first.
Maybe you can try it and see if you like it?
dawt 1y ago • 100%
Super rad! I have a soft spot in my heart for colorless sketches exploring character designs like this.
Personality comes through well, and the head silhouette is awesome.
dawt 1y ago • 100%
Beautiful! The highlights in the metal and the precision of your color really show off your talent.
So, what happened last night in LA? 😄
dawt 1y ago • 100%
Great job!
I like the volumetric lighting (at least, I think that's what it is?) I feel like it was always tricky to get right - at least, when I was working in Maya back in the day.
I do feel like the blue light is a little bit aggressive, and wonder if there'd be value in adding some more saturated colored lights to give some depth? Depends on the concept art, obviously. I'm curious - do you mind posting the reference you're working off?