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Is there a reason to make it an instance instead of just creating a community (or communities - beware of branching out too much with a small user base, though) on an existing one?
It's better to have instances (so long as they can exist long term) that have niche focuses as they tend to attract users in those niches and it spreads things out across the federation. Right now a lot of people are just crowding their communities on general purpose instances and that's just not healthy whatsoever for the fediverse
Why/not? Also, are those drawbacks, whatever they are, enough to offset the drawbacks of actually hosting and managing a whole instance?
Yes. Very much so. Having things centralized on lemmy.world has already caused a slew of issues.
I'm surprised that this doesn't exist already. There's terefere.eu - "Arts & history instance", but it seems to be down at the moment so I can't see more details. There's also crystals.rest - "A general instance for livestreaming, anime, and retro art!", but that's just for one specific type of art.
Ikr! I'll see if I can get the funds somehow to spin up the initial cost of the server, we will see though
Don't stretch yourself too thin, though. Might be something to back-burner if money is tight.
Yes, do it.
I’ve been enjoying !pics@lemmy.world , !traditional_art@lemmy.world and !psychedelic_artwork@psychedelia.ink here and thinking the same thing! Lemmy works quite well as an image board IMO.
Wouldn't a community make more sense? It can be made on an instance that already exists.
An instance dedicated to art and art focused things would help spread the federation out and attract users who are focused primarily on art. It's really not a good idea to put everything on one instance. It's a thing that occurs on the fediverse, outside of specific instances there are niche and hobby focused instances that attract a lot of people. Everyone is just crowding all their communities into the general purpose instances and that's not really how the fediverse is intended to work.
Yeah I’ve really loved the culture of niche instances like startrek.website, lebowski.social, sffa.alliance. I think they provide an interesting and friendly local feed, have a more general federated feed, and then of course you can have your own subs. I say go for it!
I had experience with mastodon several years ago and so when I moved over here from Reddit I was excited to try and find an instance that resonated with me but alas, the only niche ones are like, furry instances, porn instances, and tech instances. Bummed that there haven't been more that have themes.
That's exactly why I'm asking, to maybe make a new one with a new theme :)
I think that having different communities for different kinds of art, on an art-focused instance makes sense.
You can have digital art community, painting community, photography community, music, video, etc.
Some of those could even be subdivided like landscape photography, macro photography, portraits, urban life, etc.
Tldr I think there enough different kinds of art that a single community wouldn't do it justice.
Posting the comment I made over on !fediverse@lemmy.ml but I checked and made some calculations and unfortunately I just don't have the budget for the initial cost this month AND this instance alongside that. Probably next month I would. Sorry yall.
Count me in.
I have some ben 10 fan art to share and there is a kirta community already so yeah there are digital artists here.
I freaking love ben 10