I'd pay a small membership fee for a Pinterest clone that had a better community.
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That is: a site targeted towards designers and artists (who assemble image moodboards as inspiration for their own work, and who upload images of their own work).
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Also, as far as I know there is no social media site that adequately compensates image *archivists* -- the people who upload scans of old books and magazines, or copy images buried deep in online archives (like the Internet Archive or Wikimedia).
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The really impressive image archivists are on Tumblr (eg https://y2kaestheticinstitute.tumblr.com/ , https://nemfrog.tumblr.com/ ) but the site is far from friendly to them. They've had tons of images taken down for supposed "pornography" (often just algorithmic error, no actual nudity).
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Apparently a bunch of other archival/curation work is going on in private Facebook groups:https://medium.com/flyingobject/so-facebook-groups-are-where-design-history-happens-now-ac13d79ff090 …
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High quality image curation communities really seem like they have no real "home" on the internet and there might be an opportunity for a new site that caters to them.
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Also, one possible baby step in the direction of incentivizing original content would be to have the primary engagement metric be restricted to images that your account uploads to the site. You should get dopamine spikes for contributing but not for copying.
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