I used to primarily use Instagram for following illustrators, sculptors, digital artists, etc., but I dropped Insta for obvious reasons.

There was also a large exodus from Insta to Cara.app almost a year ago due to Meta’s stupid policies on using Insta content to train AI. While Cara is generally a great site and has anti-AI policies (I’m not anti-AI, just anti the way most companies implement AI), my problem with Cara is that it’s an owner funded site that will inevitably need to find a way to monetize the content/users.

On the Fediverse, I’m on Lemmy, Mastodon (though I don’t love the micro-blog format), and Pixelfed (very little activity).

So my question is: What platforms in the Fediverse are you seeing the most original artist content?

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    14 days ago

    Artists require an audience if they’re going to share their work - otherwise we might as well just hang our works up on our fridge and be done with it.

    Lemmy is a very small audience at present.

    • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      14 days ago

      They also often rely on commissions or supporter pages to cover costs or make a living, which Lemmy is often hostile to.

  • feb@loma.ml
    31·
    14 days ago

    A project in the Fediverse is not an encapsulated unit. Therefore, each project is potentially the right one to create and distribute content and all others are able to receive and display the content.

    • anticonnor@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      14 days ago

      Could you expand on that? If I were looking for federated platforms that get a lot of activity from artists posting their work, what would you recommend?

  • captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.orgEnglish
    1·
    14 days ago

    Can’t say that I have found them. I hoped Cara would be a new landing place but I think we are all wary of investing our energy in building another place that gets taken away or drives us out later.