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?

  • Wistful@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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    4 days 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