I only just became aware of this new artist-friendly social media app/website and made a profile in the last two days, which you can find here:

https://cara.app/paullucas/all

And I only became aware of it because there was a HUGE wave of artists migrating to it from Instagram over the last week. Apparently the main reason was Instagram's very heavy handed new policy of insisting that every image posted to its plaform is going to be scraped for its AI algorithm, whether the artist approves or not. Apparently there is a nominal opt-out option, but it's buggy, deliberately convoluted, and not available in all countries--including the US. I abandoned Instagram late last year, so this didn't affect me personally--though I'm sure they'll happily still use any of my images they might still have in their database from me--but I can100% understand the Instagram artists community's outrage and desire to find something better.

Enter Cara, which was created by an artist to be a more ethical alternative to Instagram, and functions like it. It's still in a developmental stage, and was taken by surprise by the HUGE surge of new users in the last few weeks, which was around 500,000 the last I saw. So it is buggy, and they're still haveing trouble with funding and scaling, but I'm hoping they can get through that and it eventually becomes an industry staple. By all means join if you want (and follow me there as well, of course) but if you can try and give them a donation when you do to help them along if you can afford it, even if it is only a few dollars.