Interesting how widespread that seems to be all of a sudden. I have a nephew who is leaving IG for Cara along with several of his fellow artists. nostr:npub17nd4yu9anyd3004pumgrtazaacujjxwzj36thtqsxskjy0r5urgqf6950x just posted about it too.
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Yes indeed, I noticed the same thing.
We Nostr users are very curious about everything related to being free it seems.
Let's hope some developers take inspiration from this feature.
Iām guessing Caraās stance against AI art is a big attraction. I wish Pinterest had a filter for AI. Went searching for a topic and expected art and photography; got 80% AI images. ā¹ļø
The quality I am seeing on Cara is really nice so far. Thereās an interesting scenario which could unfold where by building a community of āverifiedā human artists we are able to more easily see the value of an individual artists work vs the averaging of all art using AI. It could elevate the value of human art.
Itāll be interesting to see if non-artists go to Cara. An artist-based community is great, though non-artists or hobby artists are usually the audience needed for sales of art and/or classes, meet-me-at-this-event announcements, join my art challenge, sign up for my newsletter, etc.
If Cara is just artists, then I think itās more social time than helps-my-art-business time spent there. My impression is a lot of those who make a living with their art need/use social media for their business, which means the platform has to have the right potential audience or itās not worth the artistās time and effort.
Yeah thatās a good point. Early indications are that the Cara developers are trying to support the platform by making it a talent showcase for hiring/jobs. Definitely different from a direct to consumer or patronage model.
This is exactly an area where Nostr could shine, because you could have an app designed to be a professional showcase/portfolio for artists, and yet the same events/content could be pulled into a social apps geared toward consumers/patrons without the artist having to rebuild their social graphs separately on each app.
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Love this. Although I would argue the value of nostr in this case is not a portable social graph, itās a portable identity attached to a modular portfolio. The people who attend your events and the people who hire you for commercial work donāt have to know each other even exists.