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Where are the writers at now? (social media) (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by suteaka@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.world
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What social media sites/platforms seem to be the best nowadays for following/interfacing with authors? As in, where are fiction writers congregating online nowadays? Social media? Siloed into personal Discord channels? TikTok? Other???

I used to follow a bunch of people on Twitter but kinda fell out of the social media game for a few years due to personal life stuff, and now trying to get back into it, it feels like everything is on fire (in a bad way). I don't want to go back to Facebook and Twitter for obvious reasons. Lemmy is cool, but super, super niche.

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[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago

Mastodon and Bluesky might be good places to start.

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago

I think there’s a large community of writers on Substack, but substack is kinda shoddy so…

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago

back in the day it felt like authors sometimes had accounts on Goodreads, but I don't know that this is still true ... Bluesky does seem like a good recommendation, it seems like a lot of people on Bluesky are writers.

[–] n0p1lls@piefed.zip 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You could check out Mastodon ( this instance, for example ) or WriteFreely

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