Devianart alternativ
Devianart alternativ
Edit: thank you for all information, it is really helpful π I will check out pixelfed (.art) and go from there, maybe later setting up something "at home" ! Thanks again !!!
Hello !
I just got asked for a link to my paintings, and well I don't have an art portfolio online and after trying some free ones out, I haven't found anything nice (ease if useno nag-ware) so I thought of Devianart where lits of good pixel artists hanged around some ten years ago ...
But I have heard Devianart is no longer recommended or the goto place for your portfolio, is that so (or not ofc!) and if, do you have any recommendations for a free online portfolio? Say 30-40 paintings tops.
I'm thinking about setting up something myself so self hosting (FOSS) recommendations are greatly appreciated too!
Cheers!
DeviantArt has been declining over the past few years due to controversial design changes and, more recently, a push for genAI garbage.
A lot of artists I've seen have recently been going to https://cara.app/ , although it's relatively new and it's unclear if it will last.
If you want something ActivityPub, you can also consider finding/hosting a PixelFed instance.
Cara has it in their terms of service that they gain the shared copyright of anything posted on their website. Nothing in their terms of service says they can't open a store and sell prints or even sell the data to an AI company.
Cara is literally one of the worse places for artists.
It also has rapidly-ballooning expenses with basically no income model other than a donation link.
I want a decent new art platform as much as everyone else but I'm not moving my entire portfolio over to a new service that, honestly, looks like it'll be dead in 6-12 months.
Tos: https://blog.cara.app/terms
The closest thing I can find is the following:
Which doesn't actually grant any copyright; it just explicitly states that the artist remains the copyright holder.
There seems to be a weird hateboner on Instagram for Cara, for unsurprising reasons.
What are the terms that say that? I just want to be sure because every few years I see uproar over misinterpretations of some social site's terms of service saying "we have the right to modify and redistribute your work", when all it means is that they can host and make slight modifications to the files you post.
Yep, after 18 years on dA, I closed my account there yesterday.
I had about 2000 photos or so, but a year ago I got too pissed off at how slow and annoying it was to navigate, so I set up an index page on a webhost and use digiKam to create albums.
I update the index page in HTML/CSS and link to the albums.
The albums does have some javascript, that is to enable arrowkey navigation, else it is just pure HTML and CSS, and it is blazingly fast.