And for some reason the prisons are full…

That why there is the advice to “only do one crime at a time” I guess!

Most youths who are involved in crime carry a knife for protection. This means that if the police want to arrest one of them, for whatever reason, they can because they will likely find a knife on them.

The cells are probably crammed full of cosplayers, student protestors and journalists. Remember that massive ruckus and manhunt for thee guy who was wandering around in a gimp suit making people feel uncomfortable?

“Our prisons have never been safer!”

It’s OK though because as soon as the prison guards turn their backs on him he will immediately escape on an eight inch paraglider.

Good feckin point!

Wtf. Just looked this up and you’re right. It seems like literally everything contains either toxic chemicals or plastics, unless you made it yourself without them.

Really good article, thanks for sharing. I recommend everyone reads it 👍

What would be the benefits of this over Nextcloud, apart from not having to set it up?

I reckon the police wanted to bust him for some other reason. The Master Sword was just their excuse.

They depict children, and lots of people online think that automatically has to mean something nefarious.

I want a decent new art platform as much as everyone else but I’m not moving my entire portfolio over to a new service that, honestly, looks like it’ll be dead in 6-12 months.

It might be worth self-hosting your own website.

Hopefully Pixelfed will continue to grow and various clients can be developed which cater to different types of users. For now I believe @dansup@pixelfed.social is the man to address our suggestions to. I’d imagine he’s also quite busy though…

Yes. It’s worth noting though that as a Pixelfed user you will only see posts with images. In fact a lot of my favourite art that I see is coming from mastodon.art, which is (as the name suggests) a Mastodon instance!

I only have experience with pixelfed.social which is my home instance. I think you’ll be fine with any general purpose instance though. They should all federate well, so your home feed will be made up of accounts and hashtags that you follow which can come from anywhere on the fediverse, not just your own instance. It’s well worth exploring and getting a nice feed for yourself based on people and styles/mediums/subjects that you like. It’s also good to comment on others work and keep the encouraging/supportive vibe happening :)

OK, those are good points. It would be great if that kind of functionality can get incorporated into it at some point.

I highly recommend using Pixelfed. It looks really nice, is easy to use, is FOSS, decentralised and federated, and is a really positive space. It’s designed as a sort of Instagram replacement but whereas Instagram is used as a ‘social media’ advertising platform, Pixelfed is all art and photography. I actually find it to be one of the only genuinely enjoyable and uplifting parts of the internet at the moment and have discovered loads of art through it that I love and am inspired by. Have a look at some user profiles on a few instances to find one that looks like how you want to present your portfolio before signing up to one, as there may some variety between instances.

If you don’t mind doing a bit more work, it’s also not too difficult to set up a wordpress website on a cheap VPS using YUNOhost.

For ease and goodness I think Pixelfed is unbeatable though :)

and isn’t really structured like a gallery

I think that might depend on which instance you create an account on. I just had a quick look at pixelfed.social and profiles come up with a gallery view.

Edit: I also use it exclusively for looking at and posting art, as opposed to social stuff, and find it great for this.

I had no idea this was already happening…

I just assume now that any content or data that I make available to a company will be exploited by them. So I don’t do it. It’s pretty sad to be honest. I want to keep things special and share with the people I know and love but I can’t do it without also sharing with others at the same time, who cheapen and abuse it. Intimacy, trust and shared experience as a core part of human life is being erased and I don’t think anyone is really even noticing it happen to them.