@Pawlicker

Misskey, judging by its wide usage, seems to provide most of the functions artists are interested in.
For now, social discoverability works well enough. Tagging and some sort of content taxonomy could be added.
A fedi instance build with an extensible architecture supporting addons would be nice.

Tell you the truth I think that the way forward is real decentralized communities. I've been looking at how the Ethereum community is organized which despite massive shilling attempts it is still functioning. And they do this by having multiple sites, each with a different purpose. They have a developer's forum, a couple of subreddits, a stackexchange, a feature development forum, newsletters, irl meetings, etc.

Btw, is any one of ourguys running a lemmy server?