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Revive Photoshop Battles? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 days ago by humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee
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I was looking around, and realised we don't have a single functioning equivalent to r/PhotoshopBattles. On a quick search:

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.

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[–] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

We should revive the lemm.ee instance

Because the others are dormant while that one is unmoderated? I thought it might be beneficial to just start making !imageedits@lemmy.zip alive again since it already exists. Even though the mod is inactive. If they do not come back or use Lemmy, you can always message the instance admin to install you as mod too and possibly kick the dormant account off the mod team, that's what I did with !bunnies@lemmy.world with my lemmy.world account.

Or is it because you use lemm.ee right now, and you only can use all mod powers on a local account? I have multiple accounts on different instances to deal with modding on different instances. It really does not take much effort for me to hop into different instances.

[–] humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In a curious twist, I can't find !imageedits@lemmy.zip through a lemmy.zip account. It just doesn't show up in search, and clicking on the links I myself posted from this account leads to an error message.

[–] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder if someone closed it down? If not, I have had similar troubles with lemmy.zip and honestly forgot about them when I made this post.

[–] Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We remove communities with dormant mods to prevent spam :)

[–] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So I made a backup community, !otomegames@lemmy.zip on your community, explicitly saying I would not do any posting or unlock unless the main !otomegames@ani.social died. Is that getting killed unless the community receives posts? What about the @OtomeGamesBot@lemmy.zip (which is usually me manually operating, oops)?

[–] Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah, we do a whole process where we write out to mods first to check before deleting - plus iirc you've put its a backup community in the sidebar. We're not so big I don't recognize the communities quite yet!

We wouldn't delete any dormant account.

[–] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 4 points 1 day ago

Whew, thank you. And you are absolutely right I am explicit about its backup status in the sidebar.

[–] humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

That is a fair point. Promoting the community again should help take care of contributors as well, hopefully.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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?

[–] Undearius@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would love a more generic name

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.

[–] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[–] hilliard@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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]

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think that would still invoke photoshop, just going with something more generic would be the better option long-term using the op rationale.

[–] hilliard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm just nostalgic. like, I sometimes hide Carter in my edits level nostalgic