I bought a camera and I found that I love taking pictures. However after a year or two of taking pictures I’ve found myself in a rut. I don’t know what to do with the pictures or how to share them with others because I cannot use social media (other than HN and LinkedIn.) I personally have just found the scrolling and infinite content mechanisms are way too addicting for me, so I stay off of it.
This leads to my photos just sitting in Dropbox, often unedited because I don’t have motivation to edit them, because the most I’d do with them is share with family / a few close friends, and put them on a website nobody looks at. If I could find a way to share with others it might motivate me to put more effort into it.
I’m wondering if people have any ways they’ve found to share their art with others that doesn’t involve social media.
al_borland•5h ago
A few years ago I tried out write.as, and they also have https://snap.as for photos. It was a little finicky at the time, but may have gotten better.
Without a social aspect, I don't know that you'll have any organic discovery, it will mostly be close friends who you send the links to.
I really only take photos when I travel, and usually just make a shared album on my phone and invite a handful of people to it.