Thinking about creating a new community for sharing imaginary art, but I have some concerns... (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 day ago by Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

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You probably know about those imaginary art subreddits, where you can share art with specific theme (e.g., ImaginaryMonsters where you can share artwork with...imaginary monsters, yes) and there is a bunch of these. I was thinking of making one community that I would call something like ImaginaryAnything where people could share art with any theme, and just mention the theme in the title, instead of having 100s of communities for each specific one, since lemmy is pretty small still. There already are some specific imaginary communities on lemmy but non of them are really active.

My main concern is copyright issues, would there be any? I wouldn't want to cause the instance admin any problems. Every post would be required to credit the author and to link the source, but could images hosted on the instance cause problems? In case they could, would linking the source image link instead of uploading it to the instance avoid such problem?

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[-] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 19 hours ago

Oh, great! I somehow overlooked that community.
I see that you are mainly uploading images to catbox or using direct links of the source image. Which is fine but on the lemmy website, sometimes thumbnails are missing and some posts cannot be expanded so you have to open link in the new tab. That is the only reason why I was asking that question in my post. But it's not a big deal.

What do you think about adding a rule to have Imaginary[something] in the title just so that you could use it as a search query to find specific art, since we don't have all of those separate, specific communities?

I was thinking about having a list of possible Imaginary "categories" in the sidebar, and when someone is making a post, they could just pick one that is fitting.

This is a list from Imaginary network on reddit that I grabbed, that could be potentially used. And you would just pick one subcategory or if you are not sure about specific one, you could put a category instead.

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Characters
ImaginaryArchers
ImaginaryAssassins
ImaginaryAstronauts
ImaginaryKnights
ImaginaryLovers
ImaginaryMythology
ImaginaryNobles
ImaginaryScholars
ImaginarySoldiers
ImaginaryWarriors
ImaginaryWitches
ImaginaryWizards

Races
ImaginaryAngels
ImaginaryDwarves
ImaginaryElves
ImaginaryFaeries
ImaginaryHumans
ImaginaryImmortals
ImaginaryMerfolk
ImaginaryOrcs

Lands
ImaginaryBattlefields
ImaginaryCityscapes
ImaginaryHellscapes
ImaginaryMindscapes
ImaginaryPathways
ImaginarySeascapes
ImaginarySkyscapes
ImaginaryStarscapes
ImaginaryWastelands
ImaginaryWeather
ImaginaryWildlands
ImaginaryWorlds

Architecture
ImaginaryArchitecture
ImaginaryCastles
ImaginaryDwellings
ImaginaryInteriors

Monsters
ImaginaryBeasts
ImaginaryBehemoths
ImaginaryCarnage
ImaginaryDemons
ImaginaryDragons
ImaginaryElementals
ImaginaryHorrors
ImaginaryHybrids
ImaginaryLeviathans
ImaginaryMonsterGirls
ImaginaryUndead
ImaginaryWorldEaters

Technology
ImaginaryArmor
ImaginaryCybernetics
ImaginaryCyberpunk
ImaginaryFutureWar
ImaginaryFuturism
ImaginaryMechs
ImaginaryPortals
ImaginaryRobotics
ImaginaryStarships
ImaginarySteampunk
ImaginaryVehicles
ImaginaryWeaponry

Fandoms
ImaginaryAzeroth
ImaginaryDarkSouls
ImaginaryFallout
ImaginaryJedi
ImaginaryKanto
ImaginaryMarvel
ImaginaryMiddleEarth
ImaginaryNecronomicon
ImaginaryTamriel
ImaginaryWarhammer
ImaginaryWesteros
ImaginaryWitcher

Misc
ImaginaryBestOf
ImaginaryAww
ImaginaryColorscapes
ImaginaryFeels
ImaginaryNetwork
ImaginaryPets
ImaginarySliceOfLife
ImaginaryWTF

[-] underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

There's already communities for pretty many of these, like !imaginarywitches and !imaginarymerfolk .

There's a list of at the top of this directory.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago

Indeed, !lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[-] burgersc12@mander.xyz 1 points 18 hours ago

Might be better off posting this in the place you are talking about instead of just a random comment to someone who has no say in what that community does?