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

  • krizste
    1•2 years 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.

  • wave_walnut
    1•2 years ago

    kbin.social has m/art magazine. I hope you would post to there to make here a great place in fediverse.

    • PositiveNoise
      1•2 years 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.

  • Kichae
    1•2 years 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.

    • UnshavedYak
      1•2 years 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

      • Kichae
        1•2 years 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.

    • Magess
      1•2 years ago

      I think @dansup has a portfolio feature for Pixelfed, or maybe a special server that was for artists?

        • noodlejetski
          1•2 years ago

          let’s check.

          @dansup

          yes it is, which shouldn’t be that surprising since it federates with Mastodon as well.

  • axelrafn
    1•2 years 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.

  • Saturdaycat
    1•2 years ago

    I’m using pixelfed right now!

    Here’s an example of my portfolio.

    https://portfolio.pixelfed.social/Supernyamo

    It’s similar to DA, but it’s more Instagram like than DeviantArt. I think this style of posting photos is decent enough but I’ll be sure to hop on a DeviantArt-like if it ever does come up