Hello, my name is Cris. :)

I like being nice to people on the internet and looking at cool art stuff

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  • I mean it also does just appeal to a very different demographic than the fediverse has been built by.

    Reddit/lemmy is a favored format for technical folks and twitter/Mastodon is very general purpose (facebook is more so, but it’s not really a many-to-many network)

    Pinterest and DeviantArt are worthwhile pretty much exclusively to arts folks (which is also just a narrow demographic for something as niche as the fediverse), and the fediverse is pretty oriented towards technical folks, as that’s who built it. You also see that pattern in linux, the development of which has significantly more technical resources than design, with the notable exception of GNOME (not to say it’s objectively good or right for everyone, just that they balance their resources differently)

    Like a solid half of the fediverse is just technical open source nerds. Who I love, mind you, but it isn’t exactly the category of people likely to value pinterest, or DeviantArt.


  • I use it to save images as reference that still links back to the original content. That way I can make boards of reference or inspiration that contains links to the source for more detail or ideas, without having to save an image and then save a link and then keep them together somehow.

    And if you just bookmark stuff you can’t pull it all up and look at it together as like a reference board.

    The federated aspect would probably just be to enable decentralization while still allowing as many people as possible to contribute to the total image pool and organize them, which would teach the platform what images how to organize them so other people can find them.


  • I’m not actually sure honestly. I’d like a Pinterest alternative too.

    Pixelfed or Friendica for art pages might be the closest thing to deviantart (as best I’m aware at least). Pixelfed is modeled after instagram, friendica is modeled after facebook.

    The network of microblogging sites like Mastodon or miskey (twitter-like) is the biggest fediverse platform, after that is probably reddit like platforms (lemmy, kbin, piefed) and pixelfed.

    Most other platforms like peertube (YouTube alternative), loops, friendica, and probably a much of others, are still on the smaller side and still feel much different from their corporate counterparts due to the size difference. They haven’t really hit a “critical mass” yet in my opinion. They’re still cool and worth trying out if you’re interested though :)

    The fediverse is still growing, but I’m not sure there are direct couterparts for those specific user experiences yet.

    Regardless, welcome! I’m glad you’re here :)