4C stands for Cool Communities of Content Creators, and the core idea is this:
having a decentralized community of content creators who support each other and grow together, by making collaborations and events, and talking about the struggles of being a Content Creator.
Decentralized because usually in a community, a single person, usually the founder, creates a server and informs people about what they do. Now, nothing wrong with that, it’s even deserved because creating a free and open community is a lot of work, money, and energy. But this is not the idea I had when I founded 4C. I wanted to create a community where everyone could participate and talk about creating content, and I would have been just a very active member, as I’d be in any community I’d be a member of.
In 4C, you can create your own 4C event, with the logo, and the colors and we will also provide in promoting it in the community. And of course, there are some rules and these events should always be accepted by staff members.
So this is the core idea.
The Community is currently Active on Discord and Twitter. This is enough for now but we will expand in the future.
An important disclaimer: Although many of us are developers, probably because Developers are great at making communities, this is not a developers-exclusive community (hence the name Cool Community of Content Creators). We are just focused on the process of Content Creation, how to get better at making videos, writing articles, and making Twitter Spaces. In the future, we might have different types of content creators, because we are focused on talking about HOW to create content, not development. Having said this, many activities and things are related to tech, and this is totally fine for now. We are just open to any kind of YouTubers, Writers, Podcasters
At the top of the community, we have community managers.
The current community managers for 4C are Jax Avie.
Community managers are people who take care of the community itself, especially the Discord Community. So they discuss the structure, nominating the Staff Members, who are the core of the community.
The structure is always a work in progress. We try to add new ways of interaction to elevate the community while maintaining a beginner-friendly experience, and helping everyone
The server basically consists of four main sections:
- Welcome
- News/updates
- Main Hub
- Off-topic
- Self-promotion
- Projects
Every section ends with voice channels related to the purpose of this section.
In this section, we have:
🛑 rules-and-info: All the server rules and information can be found here
💳 get-roles: to Make sure to take all the roles that interest you to stay up to date with all the news and events
📢 community-announcements: All the announcements regarding our community
📢 events-announcements: Announcing the events of all our members here. Twitter spaces, YouTube lives, ETC.
👋 newcomers: People recently joined the server
This is where we do all the heavy conversations about content creation. It starts with introductions and then into the general chat.
General chat is what connects the server together, it is mainly about content creation but can also stretch to more general concerns.
Twitter chat is one of many specific social media platforms that we're going to introduce. Discussions here are all about Twitter from a content creation perspective.
YouTube chat is another super channel for creators who post content on YouTube. Share your analytics (if you want), and get insights on how the platform works as a whole. In short, networking with other YouTubers can never be bad.
The discussion forum is the main and only forum on the server where people can seek all forms of help. It has a powerful search function and it’s better to ask specific questions as the question will not be bumped off by another conversation as it would in general chat
The audio channels in the main hub are all about community gatherings, be it the 4C hall or the open coffee chat
This section is all about bonding together as a community on a more personal level.
Random chat is everything that doesn't go into General chat, sharing random daily pics and discussions about more broad topics.
The memes channel is self-explanatory and the bot commands is a channel to spam everything related to bots on the server so we don’t spam other channels where meaningful discussions are happening
The counting game is just a game where you count to some specific number (the goal count is regularly updated). It’s a good way to invite newcomers to start interacting with the server. Being the person to reach a certain count gives you a role that you can flex!
The audio channels here are all about 1 on 1 coffee chats
We created a section dedicated to self-promotion so we can keep the other parts of the server clean and have all advertisements in one place.
This section is hidden behind level 3 and level 10 to avoid spammy people who just join discord servers to spam and leave (You get levels as of now by chatting in the server).
There are specific channels per type of content like articles, videos, Twitter, Insta, and those are hidden behind level 10.
We have one general content channel, an events channel, and a GitHub channel behind level 3. This will allow newcomers to share everything they are preparing as content creators.
On top of it all an achievement channel where people can brag about the things they have accomplished.
These channels have slow mode enabled and people can send messages once every 15 min (excluding the achievement channel which is 1 min). It is set this way to avoid spam and to invite people to share what’s really relevant.
The audio channel in this section is all about streaming, open for anyone who wants to stream something to the community
The 4C website promotes 1 project for all the active members. Some projects are worked on in the community. The 4C website is an open-source project that is handled within the community for example.
Another project is the spaces lounge, also a project maintained and handled within the community.
As well as the Free web3 project, which is also open source, and a great resource for anyone who wishes to start learning Web3.
This section also has a chat for people who want to discuss their projects. The audio channel is mainly for meetings held regarding projects.
In 4C, we want to have some projects and create content out of them. Members can suggest their own projects. For now, there is no restriction but we are working on filtering just the good ones, and maybe we will have a limit of projects we currently have. You can see the current projects here.
To add a new project, you can contact Tobiloba or make a PR to the project.
Projects:
- 4C Website (Maintainer: Tobiloba)
- Space Lounge (Maintainer: Ali)
- Free Web3 Resources (Maintainer: Francesco)
This is the first 4C project. We needed a website and we of course went for an Open Source solution. The idea was to have a project to collaborate on together.
🔗Link to the live site: 4c site
⚙️Tech Stack: Next.js, Tailwind CSS
On the site, we have:
- Active members’ page – For members above level 10 in the discord server
- Projects’ page – For projects of members of the community, a link to the live project and to the GitHub repository are fine; even a portfolio site makes the cut.
- Blog posts' page — For blog posts by members of the community for the community. Any blogs you’ve written can also go here.
- Activities page — The community’s ongoing and current activities will go here. Just a simple page with banners about events, ongoing activities, and other stuff by the community or members of the community.
- Staff page — The members of the staff of the community are all here. If you want to know the staff, this is the place to find them all. There are links to their online platforms and all that on here as well.
- Videos’ page — Videos about stuff related to the community go here. A simple thumbnail and brief description are what we’re using for now.
- FAQ page — As the name implies, “Frequently asked questions” on stuff about the community go here. You can find answers to common questions about the community here.
N.B - On a final note, there are a lot of improvements left to be made on the site and contributions are always welcome. Please, raise issues when you see one. The site is the community’s and it’s our responsibility to make it the best!
Have you ever had to scroll through the Twitter spaces section trying to find a space from your favorite creators and speakers? Well in the SPACESLOUNGE we are making a creator list so that you can easily view their scheduled spaces.
🔗Link: spaceslounge.vercel.app
⚙️ Tech Stack: Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Yarn
It is an open-source project where you can contribute, and bring some value to the website to look beautiful and have good functionality.
There is an amazing group of developers actively working on making the project a success, and each of them has a responsibility that contributes to making the project more stable.
If you are willing to contribute and join the team, You can check spaces lounge channel which is in the PROJECTS section.
There are several pages that exist on the website and they are:
- Home page - which gives more information about the website
- Sign in - the user can sign in with only Twitter
- Host Dashboard - which is used to see others’ spaces and create one for yourself
- Speaker Dashboard - You can choose any space and join them as a speaker
- Contributors - On this page, All the contributors’ info will be here
This project started on December 19, 2021, and it was just me saving the daily content I was creating. But then it turned into a list of free resources to learn web3. Web3 should be accessible to everyone, and this is the goal of this project: to make the life of those who want to learn Web3 and blockchain technologies easier.
⚙️ Tech Stack: Docusaurus (React)
Staff Members are the people who organize, support, manage activities, help to moderate, and create a good environment in the Discord Community. In order to become a staff member, there is an application phase (which is currently closed).
The 4C community currently has 15 staff members.
- Avneesh
- Ali Reza
- Arda Sevinc
- Dunsin
- Emy
- Graham
- Krupali
- Lou
- Madhu
- Naomi
- Pradumna
- Shubhangi
- Sumit
- Tobiloba
- Yudai
There are many activities we do in the 4C Community, and many more will come in the future.
- 4Call, Saturday 2 pm GMT+1 (weekly)
- The general chat and the random chat (daily)
- Discussion Forum (whenever you want)
- Question of the Week (weekly)
- Coffee Chats / Games (weekly)
- Twitter Spaces (almost daily)
- Free Content Creation Workspaces: we bring some good content creators to talk about how they create content.
🎉 Special
- We are also organizing a big online event for 2023. Stay tuned!
If you are looking for a cool community to be a part of and you haven’t joined 4C, then you are missing out. Not only are we super supportive and inclusive, but we are also constantly looking for ways to connect and collaborate with other communities. We did a fun live collaboration with EddieHub (you can catch that amazing collab stream here) and there is definitely more to come.
So, if you are a content creator, looking to connect with like-minded folks, then 4C is the place for you. Hop right into our discord server. We are also active on twitter, where we host valuable spaces. Follow us there to catch these updates.
C you there :)