There has been some discussion here about a community where artists can share their work. This community seems like an obvious place for that, but it is currently mostly people sharing art that they appreciate.

I was thinking of possibly doing weekly threads where people could share their art without having it show up in the main feed, but I would also like to open up a discussion on it.

Since I had totally forgotten that I was a moderator of this community since it’s never generated any reports, I also went ahead and set the banner and thumbnail to something random. (Last art image on my phone and the first post ever in this comm). I will pick replacements from this thread that get the most upbears.

  • Hermes [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    I’m neither an artist, nor a real member of this community, but I would have opsec concerns about encouraging sharing personal work here. Hexbear has rules against sharing selfies (AFAIK) because they could be linked back to individual people, and sharing art here that is also posted on other social media makes de-anonymization easier. If people were to post their own creations, there should be some guidelines or info about opsec and keeping it separate from your IRL persona.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netOPMEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Fair, I can update the sidebar with info on EXIF scrubbing and not including like a signature or something. People share pictures of their pets and art in other comms pretty frequently. This would basically just be a continuation of that but in this specific comm

        • JustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          these concerns are really important and its good to point out here.

          its a topic that is probably overdue for another discussion site wide sooner than later. or some good effort posts re: how to conceptualise the risk hexbear might pose to you the poster and best practices for certain types of posting.