Against the grain here but I feel like it needs to be popularised. But have you considered trying to do it in person? Going to shared spaces, meetups, etc and talking to people.

It’s almost a dying practice but I feel it’s massively valuable in a way that can’t be replicated online.

I like reddit, but feel the moderation model is too skewed towards censorship. I created an informational post recently on a niche subreddit and it seemed well received, but then was deleted by a mod with no explanation.

> but [gestures vaguely at the state of it]

Everyone wants to gesture vaguely at the state of it but it's still by far the best place. Just use the site the way you want to use it, post the way you wish others posted, and mute stuff you don't like aggressively.

Niche forums are still alive and well.

I run a blog and like to write about projects but it's hard to get feedback there unless you're willing to moderate comments. As a work around I started sharing build threads on places like garagejournal and you can get a lot of good feedback.

I think the best way to do this today is having your own site, be it in the shape of a blog, digital garden or whatever and then syndicate, following POSSE[0], in case of wanting community or distribution.

[0] https://indieweb.org/POSSE

For sharing digital creations, X is still the #1 place to do it for visibility and discovery. I get a surprising amount of positive interactions there.

I think YouTube can be a good place for it, probably supplemented by a simple website.

Example, Pete's Garage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQFlaDhWsck

Hackaday is still pretty cool if you're into technogadgets and the like

Isn't twitch or YouTube live the obvious sort of way?

I don't know how publicly you mean, but I do this on the maker community I'm a part of (shout out to our general maker newsletter, sign up at https://www.themakery.cc/ for fun links).

I also do something like it on my website, but that's writeups of the finished product. The community gets to see the raw state of what I'm making, throughout the process.

I would begrudgingly suggest LinkedIn. I have seen a bunch of professors doing it there successfully. There they also promote their Substack which LinkedIn allows. I remember Elon had banned Substack on X at one point.

Does substack have a built in community like that? I thought you really needed to get people there or use it for the newsletter feature.

isn't it called x? why do you say twitter?

> would have been Twitter, but

Still is (X), despite the people who would fool themselves into thinking otherwise.