 Hey artists, my partner is on mastodon.art and can't see, like, 50% of the federation because her instance has blocked so many other instances. Is there another, better, art-focused instance that she can move to? It's frustrating to both of us but obviously mostly her. UPDATE: she moved over to @hnrfineart! Thanks everyone for the helpful suggestions! Reward yourselves with a little bit of ice cream or some sherbet today! 🙏 😀 70 comments
@philpem It's fine art, mixed media with acrylics and fabrics, and it's a delight to experience. Looks something like this:  @jgilbert Wow, I absolutely love it. Please let me know when your partner finds somewhere, because I'd love to see that kind of thing on my timeline. @philpem well, if you're able to see her at @hnrfineart today, then you can follow, and (presumably) when she migrates that following should migrate along. @jgilbert I also love it and would be thrilled to follow your partner in their new Fedi home! @julescelt01 I am glad you like it, but you cannot have that one, because I already bought it and it is in my living room. Sorry? 🙃 It's part of a larger series of similar pieces, and there's still some available at https://heatherrobinson.com/recent-work @jgilbert I've got pixel.tiggi.es, which is a Pixelfed instance, geared towards artists who also want to have curated galleries of their art. It's fully compatible with Mastodon and the rest of the fediverse. @jgilbert It's an all Enterprise NVMe instance on a 5Gbit connection. They're welcome to try it out if they like. If it's not for them, no harm, no foul.  @jgilbert it sucks that that server is run so drama-ly. I want to see the art, but i muted its curator account because so many of the posts are drama @MLE_online right, this is all part of the dilemma and makes exposure and discovery difficult. 🤷♀️ Moving to an alternate art-focused instance, even though it'll be painful for her, is the right thing to do here we believe. Any suggestions are welcome :D @jgilbert socel.net or mastoart.social are two I'd recommend @jgilbert i wish i had some suggestions! All i can do is boost and comment and hope other people will see and have ideas    @jgilbert I've heard good things about mastoart.social, although they seem to have registrations temporarily closed at the moment. I guess if it's not too urgent it may be worth waiting for them to open? @jgilbert we're not really art focused and more generalist, but if she wants, she can check out over here and see if it lines up. Rules almost reduce themselves to "don't be an asshole, don't do illegal, use English and Spanish", so that's an option if she wants.  @f4grx ...out of curiosity, why? I mean, apart from that it's not art-focused, what's your reason? But more to the point of our ask, do you have a not-anti-suggestion that you think _would_ work for her needs? @jgilbert there are too many people on it. It's twitter bis, and basically means no efforts are made to build a truly federated and resilient network. Also, moderation is lacking, so it's the home of many spammers.  @allenstenhaus @f4grx you both are making good points. Do you have an instance suggestion? @jgilbert for your question, depends on what they're here for. If the goal is subscriber numbers and statistics, mastoson.social will do, but instagram or bluesky are more adapted. If you're here for genuine noncommercial contacts with lovely people, any instance will do even the generic ones, as soon as it's normally federated. Mastodon.art is quite strict regarding moderation and general instance quality, but most others are not that rigorous.  @jgilbert@mastodon.social I vaguely remember someone advertising one. But I forgot, sadly.  @jgilbert@mastodon.social the only thing i can think of right now is https://mastoart.social/about but I've never used their instance and I do not know much about their administration team. If you could specify what type of art (I know some instances that accept furry artists and that you'll get a lot of exposure there) I may be able to narrow it down or someone around me may have ideas. I'll boost the post anyway so you can get more visibility.   @jgilbert well, there are some. - Kinda depends on the #art she does, but even general instances like https://mstdn.social are fine. She can thank WelshPixie for that situation. @marionline @GrayGooGirl @marionline @jgilbert yeah + the while #TheBadSpace shitshow. - Many people, including myself, exposed #Ro et. al. as transmisogynistc asshole with a messiah complex and he retaliated by flexing his followers and just making up bs. (Basically pulling #KEEMSTAR-level #StochasticTerrorism)... #WelshPixie is known for being narccistic in her bs demands and most instances decided they don't need her bossing them around as if she owned their servers or had any power.  @jgilbert I’m having fun on Pixelfed.social. I don’t think they have defederation issues and I can see a lot of art with the right hashtag filters.   @jgilbert Yes, .art is very opinionated and liberal in blocking -- but that's always in response to an incident. Moving to an instance with a more lax blocking policy will (potentially) expose her to more of the badness that is on the fediverse @jgilbert I’ve been on https://pixelfed.art for about 6 months and have no complaints so far! @jgilbert   @jgilbert this may not be a popular response but your best option is to use a hosted service like https://masto.host/ . It costs money, but you have better control over your presence. Another option is using a free account from https://WordPress.com/ and turning on the ActivityPub plugin. @jgilbert and, of course, you can use a service like https://threads.net/ or https://flipboard.com/ .  Self-hosting via masto.host will definitely remove all the "can't be seen because of fediblocks" problem but will introduce so many "___ because of poor federation" problems. I migrated to self hosted from a server I was hearing other people talk about fediblocking and I probably would have been better at sfba.social if I had know about it. Better connections to things in my life. Jon: that's where I would suggest Heather go. Your post is top of the trending on that site now. @elithebearded yeah, you know I *like* the idea of sfba.social (hi y'all! 👋), but their /about page doesn't list the other servers they've moderated out, so it's kind of hard to tell who they're ignoring in advance of joining. 🤷♀️ They're on the list, but probably not a lock because of that lack of transparency. @jgilbert There's currently 6 instances that are hacing the art theme. Filter the instances after Art on https://joinmastodon.org/servers and you'll see them. @jgilbert I am more into tech than art (even if I want to like doing art myself) so I haven't used any of them 😊 But the instance with most users? If it's mastodon.art, then use the one with second most users. @jgilbert hi, ummm I literally joined .social to avoid all that blocking and be better federated. There are pros and cons Ig but so far so good  I had no idea there was a mastodon.art. Seems like maybe an issue for artists and those seeking to find them. lol @jgilbert   @jgilbert Even though it probably doesn't match their main topic, seeing the works made me think of https://vis.social/about ? Not sure about their blocklist policy, but it certainly isn't as broad as .art  @jgilbert does she *need* to be on an arty instance? Does she follow the local stream rather than the people she has click-followed? @awfulwoman I don't know! Maybe? It's really up to her; she chose art-specific instances because that's what she does, like when cryptographers join infosec.social or people in the Bay Area are on sfba.social, that's what she picked. I think (and I'm really not wanting to put words in her mouth here) being around other artists makes sense, as opposed to on a general-purpose instance. 🤷♀️   They could pick a non art based instance where the vibe checks out. bsd.network is mostly tech but have some great mods. The instance matters more for the moderation and how fast you start out in my opinion.
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@jgilbert What sort of art does your partner create?