Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator

A reminder for everyone on this instance, but really it should apply globally - it's in our rules that if you're posting work that you did not create, be it a piece of art or a photograph or a bit of music or writing or whatever - you HAVE to credit the original artist AND have to provide some kind of commentary or critique (which prevents like-farming accounts).

If you can't find the creator, either don't post the image or make it clear that it's not yours and you can't find the creator.

Re. The discourse: every single instance on our blocklist that's blocked with the reason 'racism' is blocked because of racism. White people opining about it, pretending we're lying, or just flat out refusing to accept it, does not change the fact.

Yes, our blocklist is large. It would be smaller if fewer of you were racist. :)

I remind you all that our mod team is mostly global majority people. Very few of us are white. We are all some combo of queer, NB, ND, disabled.

Starting to see accounts that have been compromised after clicking on the fake 'verify your account' spam that's doing the rounds here.

Please boost for visibility:

* Familiarise yourself with you instance's admin and moderator accounts and ONLY trust account-related messages from those accounts.

* Do not click links without confirming with your instance staff that they're legit!

* Generally, any problems with your account will be brought up via email, not from a random fediverse handle.

•ART will never serve you ads, track you, sell your data, or charge you to use our site. But there are still costs related to running one of the largest artistic communities on Mastodon, and we rely on the generous support of our users to keep the lights on.

If you have the means and inclination, you can support us here:

https://www.patreon.com/mastodonart

https://liberapay.com/Curator/

https://ko-fi.com/mastoart

Otherwise, just keep on inspiring the with your amazing art! Thank you!