I agree 100% about the artists part, but we have 2 huge problems:
Storage
Allowed content
The storage is obvious, artists won’t be allowed to upload their drawings in good quality (even worse those who make animations or movies).
I know other social networks also kill their creations by compression, but at least they are easier to find by normal people and reddit-style users dislike clicking anything that takes them out of the website/app (like linking to Newgrounds or something).
Now allowed content… Lemmy has this thing about hating gooner content or booba for some reason (and using the NSFW filter is a HUGE nono, they just HAVE to be able to see blood and violence at work and in the presence of kids), and artists not only draw apples or mountains and happy little trees, sometimes even their own avatar is drawn smoking hot (either porn or not), so they get brigaded… HARD.
Also the current instances exists on places where… well… it’s basically a crime to host NSFW/sexy content, I think with how the Lemmy federation works they won’t be able to federate with instances that host that content.
These problems will basically only allow people who draw cute/safe stuff, and those already have a place on the normal social networks.
Hell, I’m subbed to a couple of porn comms and they haven’t shown up on my feed for a looooooong time (neither have the sexy anime-style comms).
So basically… we have nothing to offer the artistic community, and they are even more sensible to political problems (the fucking main Lemmy devs are a fucking problem… and why I ended up moving to piefed [for now]), so knowing the storage problem will be there, they will most likely be brigaded by those who dislike their content/ideologies (NSFW or not) and will get hardly any exposure… it just doesn’t work for them.
We need more active users who are artists and writers.
I agree 100% about the artists part, but we have 2 huge problems:
The storage is obvious, artists won’t be allowed to upload their drawings in good quality (even worse those who make animations or movies).
I know other social networks also kill their creations by compression, but at least they are easier to find by normal people and reddit-style users dislike clicking anything that takes them out of the website/app (like linking to Newgrounds or something).
Now allowed content… Lemmy has this thing about hating gooner content or booba for some reason (and using the NSFW filter is a HUGE nono, they just HAVE to be able to see blood and violence at work and in the presence of kids), and artists not only draw apples or mountains and happy little trees, sometimes even their own avatar is drawn smoking hot (either porn or not), so they get brigaded… HARD.
Also the current instances exists on places where… well… it’s basically a crime to host NSFW/sexy content, I think with how the Lemmy federation works they won’t be able to federate with instances that host that content.
These problems will basically only allow people who draw cute/safe stuff, and those already have a place on the normal social networks.
Hell, I’m subbed to a couple of porn comms and they haven’t shown up on my feed for a looooooong time (neither have the sexy anime-style comms).
So basically… we have nothing to offer the artistic community, and they are even more sensible to political problems (the fucking main Lemmy devs are a fucking problem… and why I ended up moving to piefed [for now]), so knowing the storage problem will be there, they will most likely be brigaded by those who dislike their content/ideologies (NSFW or not) and will get hardly any exposure… it just doesn’t work for them.