Edit: thank you for all information, it is really helpful 💖 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.
Tos: https://blog.cara.app/terms
The closest thing I can find is the following:
The Cara Site and all works of art (“Art”) and/or other user generated content (including without limitation commentary, images, third-party links, and similar content and/or works) (collectively the “Art And Other User Generated Content”), text, data, and other materials contained in the Cara Site are copyrighted unless otherwise noted and are the property of Cara and/or the individual artist who created any individual piece of Art And Other User Generated Content (the “Artist”). No such materials may be copied, reproduced, republished, modified or used in any way except as provided in these Terms and Conditions.
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.
are copyrighted unless otherwise noted and are the property of Cara and/or the individual artist
The hateboner is justified. For all it’s faults, instagram explicitly says it doesn’t own any of the pictures and only has a license to display which the user can revoke at anytime.
Deviant art has this in it’s TOS:
DeviantArt does not claim ownership rights in your works or other materials posted by you to DeviantArt (Your Content).
It might be due to plain incompetence and not malice but their TOS lets them do a lot more than most platforms.
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.
