I reckon Reddit works if you're very purposeful in your curation. My feed is mostly cats, book discussions and recommendations, crochet, and so on. Fuck the mean people, seek out the nice spaces.

Your work sounds amazing. Have you checked out Australian Poetry Slam? That could be a way in with supportive, like-minded people.

Join the delete Reddit squad (but still add Reddit at the end of almost every Google search)!

What makes music crappy anyway? At my work, they played a live version of a Foo Fighters song over the speakers and a customer said it sounded terrible. But the crowd went wild! It's all about taste at the end of the day.

You've got this! Go out there and express yourself, and most importantly, have fun. That's the main bit. You are HOTTOGO!! <3

Yeah reddit be judgy. Sounds like you want to get in with like minded people.

There used to be poetry slams many years ago at the Drunken Poet, dunno if that’s still going. It seemed friendly enough.

Just a heads up though that I did stop going because of some old drunk dude making inappropriate comments. So like… check it out if you want and if it sucks hit the bricks

it sounds like a place where mean people go , so don't go there :)

hugs

me, i do not care one jot if randos do not like my stuff , i do care if they try to stop me or impede me, I suppose destroying a good mood is in a way impeding me, defining me is impeding me

what matters is what my loved ones and my friends say, and this friend says expressing yourself is a beautiful thing 😘

and more hugs, it seems moving past negative voices in one's head is a life long task 😫