Are you writing a book or are publishing a book? Those are two separate things and if you search up the word authortube on YouTube you’ll get a bunch of people who are looking to publish and not many for fun. And honestly, most of them are not professionals and shouldn’t have their advice be taken.

Writing a draft is not hard and creating ideas isn’t too difficult (the snowflake method is the most popular way to create ideas from a singular idea.) It’s what comes afterwards: revisions (plot, characters, etc.), editing the words, doing those over and over until it is finished.

You don’t need to publish your first manuscript. It’s fine to just write a story or a few for yourself and later on decide if they are ready to go to a publisher or self publish.

Authortubers I like the most are: shaelinwrites, katytastic and Liselle Sambury. The first two both have degrees I think and shaelin is an editor.

I chose an instance ran by the same person who owns the mastodon instance I am on, it’s not that popular compared to the big Lemmy instances.

For my mastodon instance I chose one based off of: being on the official list, region, how many people post on that instance in a day (too many posts = too many users), what kind of stuff they post and the rules I have to follow. You could follow the same idea with Lemmy.

For the most part, I ignore the main instance and just look at my subscription feeds through a 3rd party app. So far, nothing bad has occured from being in a small community.

Also, look for posts on Lemmy or Mastodon about updates for a particular instance. My instance is being updated often and is actively geared against the spam bots and ddoss attacks from the past month.

Thanks for the tip!

As an introvert who never wanted my business to be out in the open with my real name attached, no. Was always told never use your real name online and how many times people these days had themselves bitten for doing the opposite it should be obvious by now. Not really the masses fault but the standard from Facebook years ago.

Installed Linux Mint in 2017 when I got real tired of having to reinstall windows (+ big programs) on my laptop which got blue-screened every other month. My laptop was not compatible for Linux and had to switch back to W10. Brieflu used Ubuntu on an old tower. When that laptop broke, I went with an old Mac (Linux broke it so High Sierra) and an oldish Dell Tower with LM. Gave up the Dell and now have the Mac until I can get a steam deck which I will use as a light linux pc w/monitor. Never going back to Windows.

Used both at one time, Skytube didn’t work as well as newpipe on my devices. Maybe that has changed now since some time has passed. It doesn’t seem to be updated much on fdroid with the last update being 3 months ago and didn’t update for 5 before that.

It wasn’t a bit fan of the video interface, it felt like I was watching YouTube on the mobile site.

The big thing was being able to download the video and audio. Skytube only allows video downloads. If I want offline music, I can only use Newpipe. And Newpipe let’s me decide which quality and file I want per download. It also allows downloads from SoundCloud, media.ccc.de, framatube and Bandcamp.

From what I understand, Skytube is now using Newpipe’s api for the back-end by default, so take that as you will.

I use Brave Browser’s search engine, however the results are less than ideal compared to a big company like Google and I don’t care for the AI generated information paragraph when looking up a topic as the first result. The only real private search engine is searx afaik.