Sharing Your Work and Finding People

Publish less than you make

The instinct when you start is to publish everything, because each generation feels like an achievement. It is worth resisting. A profile with fifteen strong pieces reads as a body of work, and the same profile with a hundred and fifty mixed ones reads as a scratchpad.

A reasonable filter is whether you would show a specific piece to someone whose taste you respect. Most generations do not clear that bar, and that is fine, since the point of generating cheaply is that you can afford to discard most of it.

Communities are narrower than the feed

The main feed shows everything. Communities are organised around a kind of work — anime, photoreal, 3D, design, music and others — which makes them a better place both to post and to learn, because everyone there is solving similar problems.

Joining works differently depending on the community. Some are open to anyone, some accept join requests, and some are invite only. Public communities are visible to anyone browsing, while private ones are not, which is worth knowing before you post client work or anything unfinished.

• Pick communities by the kind of work, not by size.
• Read what already does well there before your first post.
• Check whether a community is public or private before posting.
• Posting into a community usually reaches more of the right people than posting to the main feed.

Follow for technique, not just taste

The most useful follows are people whose results you cannot yet reproduce. Seeing a piece you did not know was achievable tells you something concrete about what the models can do, which is more instructive than any feature list.

When something impresses you, work out which part is the hard part. Is it the prompt, the model choice, the iteration, or the taste in picking the one good result out of thirty? Usually it is the last one, and that is the part worth learning.

Quests are a decent curriculum

Daily and weekly quests earn Magick Keys, but the more useful thing about them is that they push you at parts of the platform you would otherwise skip. If you have only ever generated images, a quest that asks for music is a cheap way to find out whether you like it.

Streaks reward turning up rather than producing anything good, which is the right incentive early on. The skill comes from volume of attempts, not from any individual attempt.