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!

  • SavvyWolfEnglish
    6•6 months ago

    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.

    • @Grimy
      2•6 months ago

      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.

      • SavvyWolfEnglish
        1•6 months ago

        The terms of service explicitly say that art remains copyright of the artist. Where are you reading that suggests that they’ve granted themselves extra rights?

        I guess you could interpret “are the property of Cara and/or the individual artist” to mean “are the property of either Cara and/or the individual artist at Cara’s discretion”, but that’s such a stretch that I can’t see a judge accepting it.

        • @Grimy
          1•6 months ago

          I misspoke in my first comment. It’s vague on if copyrights are shared but it does explicitly say it gains ownership.

          In any case, this issue has been brought up and they haven’t fixed it. Every other platforms makes it very clear who has ownership of what. There’s too much room for abuse and its either a grift or incompetence and with all the other problems with the platform, it’s not a good look.

          Federated platforms are popping up for this kind of thing, better to wait imo.