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.
gabe@literature.cafe 1 year ago
An instance dedicated to art and art focused things would help spread the federation out. 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.
wrath-sedan@kbin.social 1 year ago
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!
ratboy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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.
gabe@literature.cafe 1 year ago
That’s exactly why I’m asking, to maybe make a new one with a new theme :)