So I'm asking the fediverse, what are the best resources for finding #freelancers to hire? How do you make sure someone is actually good at what they claim to be? Where do you find people in the middle-ground of "not completely clueless" and "charging corporate prices for the simplest of jobs"??
I keep hearing "word of mouth," but I only know a very small number of #contentCreators, and none of them are large enough to have any kind of team.
Content warning: feedback on setting up a discord and mastodon account for a new "outcast creator collective"-focused community
So I'm setting up a new discord server for my #outcastcreatorcollective (an idea I had ages ago, about setting up a coommunity for #contentcreators who have faced a lot of ostracization, #censorship, etc for covering "controversial," non-capitalism-endorsed topics like #normalizenudity and #sexworkeradvocacy, and I'm trying to think about what rules I should set up in place, esp about the legality of where people can link to. Like, do I have to mark a room as NSFW just for people who LINK to content containing nudity (NOT actual pornographic content)?
Also, what all types of topic-specific rooms should I make (arts and crafts, video games, social justice, etc)?
I've had my own content-specific server for a while, but I want this place to be focused on content creators in general, a place to share our content (as long as you don't only show up to spam links), find others to collaborate with, share resources, etc. I have some members in my own community already eager to join, but I really want to encourage others. So any feedback on this would be much appreciated!
I'm also looking for experienced #discordmods, so if you're interested, please DM me.
Finally, I want to set up a mastodon server specifically for the OCC, but I'm not sure what might be the most appropriate instance to do so. I haven't found a content creator-specific instance yet, and wouldn't know if they'd allow an account that promotes, like I said, "controversial" creators (NOT rightwing, conspiracy theorists, etc). Any ideas?
The major intent of the OCC mastodon account, in addition to posting anything new about the community, would be to boost the posts of other creators. So even if you don't want to join our discord, feel free to follow and tag us if you want us to look into following back and boosting your posts.
I'm very anti-begging for boosts, but if you would like to help OCC become a reality, please consider boosting this. If not, that's fine too! I really do want this to be an open and responsive community, with active feedback so we can keep trying to improve, so whatever makes you feel welcome, please let us know. 😀
