Looking for the best place in the fediverse that is dedicated towards images and/ or posting art. Any suggestions?

  • krizste@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    i’m looking for a da-like thing too. my preferred site would be a mix of that and tumblr. something that can work as a archive/gallery and blog. i dont like the mechanics of twit/fb/insta but clones of those are mostly what i seem to find.

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      1 year ago

      Indeed. Since you aren’t limited to posting in only 1 place, and can change your mind at any time, posting on kbin seems like a wholesome start. If someone creates a great art-centric site later on, you can switch over as needed.

      I’ve looked around a bit, and haven’t seen any place with the amount of submissions that deviant art used to have, or the quality level of artstation. So far I tend to enjoy mastadon the most for art, even though it’s not a big community. And I mainly check out artstation once a week for my fix of sci-fi, fantasy, concept art etc.

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    1 year ago

    The only thing I can think of right now is PixelFed, which is more of an Instagram style thing, rather than a DA-like.

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      1 year ago

      What’s the difference to users of the two platforms, in your eyes? I’m not familiar with the workflows of either Instagram nor DA

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        1 year ago

        It’s been a long time since I’ve hung out on DA, but Instagram is a mobile-first experience. It looks and feels like it wants to be a mobile app tied directly into a cell phone’s camera. The web experience is… It would be generous to call it “secondary”.

        DeviantArt, at least as I remember it being, is more gallary-like. More… horizontal.

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    1 year ago

    ohh I’d love that! dA was amazing back in the day, but they went down a path I didn’t like and I haven’t done anything there for ages. Most, if not all, the communities I was a member of have died and it’s now more of a homage to the golden days of when I started web design and design in general, for me at least.