• insomniac_lemon
    3•5 months ago

    I posted some stuff and ran into this plus my threads not getting federated to certain places. And 3 weeks later they are still the newest posts on those communities (Kbin’s ps1graphics and blender communities, note that Kbin communities seem to not use the community link format).

    I had some technical questions and a roadblock too, but they are niche so I just… didn’t deal with it. Maybe there’s an instance out there that’d fit (for me, someone who dabbles in art and programming while not really being those things), but also I doubt it particularly because I’m only interested in a semi-niche programming language. Audience vs niche seems like an unwinnable balance.

    I’ve thought about posting to a more popular lemmy.world community for the next thing I make as it would probably get more of a response, but probably not answers so that wouldn’t matter since the stuff I made so far was just random objects. Well, I guess getting answers for Blender questions is more likely.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•5 months ago

      Hello,

      Welcome here! Did you try [email protected]? Seems reasonable active, and with a 2.5k userbase.

      But yes indeed, it’s sometimes difficult to find the audience for a niche topic, general topics do better on average

      • insomniac_lemon
        1•5 months ago

        I haven’t, the other community I was thinking of is !artshare which has 3.94K subs.

        My style is low-poly with vertex colors (no textures). My Blender questions weren’t really that important, the roadblock I am having is trying to use said models in a specific framework (or maybe the very specific bindings I’m using) just not loading vertex colors (I am not sure if there is ‘help’ here, aside from just fix it).