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?
Considering the general userbase is very open-source focused, we should promote FOSS alternatives. Instead, we could call it GimpBattles. Then people would know we mean business. /s
On a serious note, I understand that familiarity is important and helps with users that are migrating over here but I have always felt it’s the perfect opportunity to do away with some of the dumb subreddit names (all the ___Porn names, like EarthPorn)
Lemmy is not reddit, that’s the point of Lemmy.
I’ll be honest, I use this as a Reddit replacement and I’m sure others do too. Lemmy is not Reddit but they are connected in some peoples’ minds. I see it as a lovely opportunity to redo the mistakes made on Reddit, like not being able to edit a title.
I also like the idea of recreating the non-NSFW ___porn communities without such a name—I doubt people would object to NiceEarthPictures nearly as much as EarthPorn, if EarthPorn hadn’t already become established and there were not arguments to make about discoverability. Some people might see wanting to excise “porn” from the community name as Puritanism taking hold, but for me it is less about “porn objectionable” and more “this feels a little immature, and for someone new to Reddit naming conventions they might refuse to click thinking it’s porn porn, with sex, and not just innocent images”. I can imagine people not being interested in whatever fetish would be labeled “Earth porn” regardless of how hard they’d judge the fetish, but being interested in pretty Earth pictures.
Agreed
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.
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 that would still invoke photoshop, just going with something more generic would be the better option long-term using the op rationale.
I’m just nostalgic. like, I sometimes hide Carter in my edits level nostalgic