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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

[email protected] seems to be what you are looking for.

I try to post it every now and then, feel free to join me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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.

spoilerCharacters
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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago

I'm dumb. I assumed it was a mod I was replying to.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what you're asking, you mean if you use a copyrighted image and tweak it slightly?

or like drawing Mario and you're worried Nintendo is going to sue?

is it just fan art?

in all those cases, yes, uploading to a different site and then posting the link here would remove the instance one separation from liability.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

No, the images would be untouched. And those don't really contain copyrighted characters either.

The reason to upload it directly to an instance would be just for better combability with lemmy (some image links may not show correctly on lemmy, or may be missing the thumbnail...)
On reddit, they upload it directly, and link the source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

If it's just for compatibility's sake, I haven't had any problem uploading any images in any format I've tried to Lemmy so far, and I upload a lot here, so I don't think you're going to have any trouble there.

If that's your only concern, I don't think you have much to lose by trying to upload stuff and then seeing how it goes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

It seems like his concern is something he doesn't want to be clear about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

it is puzzling. what are your theories?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Haha, I'm not sure what you mean by that. I'm simply wondering if having someones artwork uploaded on a lemmy instance (even if credited) can cause copyright issues. I don't really know how that works.

Edit: Maybe I'm wording it incorrectly. I'm talking about someone filing a DMCA complaint / "unlawful reproduction or distribution of their work"...