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DeviantArt has been declining over the past few years due to controversial design changes and, more recently, a push for genAI garbage.
A lot of artists I've seen have recently been going to https://cara.app/ , although it's relatively new and it's unclear if it will last.
If you want something ActivityPub, you can also consider finding/hosting a PixelFed instance.
Cara has it in their terms of service that they gain the shared copyright of anything posted on their website. Nothing in their terms of service says they can't open a store and sell prints or even sell the data to an AI company.
Cara is literally one of the worse places for artists.
What are the terms that say that? I just want to be sure because every few years I see uproar over misinterpretations of some social site's terms of service saying "we have the right to modify and redistribute your work", when all it means is that they can host and make slight modifications to the files you post.
Their TOS isnt very long, a user linked it above.
Here's the abridged part that is of interest: