I was looking around, and realised we don’t have a single functioning equivalent to r/PhotoshopBattles. On a quick search:
- !photoshopbattles@lemm.ee - Completely empty and unmoderated
- !photoshopbattles@lemmy.world - Dormant for 2 years (with a mod who hasn’t posted or commented on lemmy in 2 years)
- !photoshop_nonsense@suppo.fi - Finnish instance, but the newest post is from 6 months ago
- !imageedits@lemmy.zip - Dormant for 2 years (mod dormant for 1 year)
We should revive the lemm.ee instance, but imo there is merit to starting afresh with a name that isn’t tied to a proprietary closed-source piece of software, like image edits or editbattles
If there’s anyone who’s interested, please take it up. I don’t mind being a mod, but I can’t be the main (let’s be real, sole) contributor right now. I’ve got my hands full with !fakealbumcover@lemm.ee, and that’s just putting text on images, not even close to realistic edits like this demands.
If we do grow another one, then I would love a more generic name
I haven’t seen the subreddit in a long time, but similar to !writingprompts@literature.cafe type communities, I wonder if there is less interest in making the content when AI tools can also do it (at a much lower quality). I would much rather look at what a human created, but I worry people aren’t as motivated to try it when they can generate it?
but I worry people aren’t as motivated to try it when they can generate it?
photoshopbattles are going on as we speak, the sub, 20 million strong. who cares about unmotivated slop slingers?
psbattles could be a good name–subtitled like photo s___? battles to avoid the proprietary [I use GIMP anyway]I think how open ended it is matters, as well as how quickly you can look at an image vs read a submission. Even on r/writingprompts, I always read a few and then moved on, while I could keep going on and on on PSBattles, because each image was just a glimpse and what they did with it was so different (at least it felt like compared to how writing prompts usually went). And personally, I agree about pivoting to a generic name.