I like the concepts of both platforms, Deviantart and Wattpad, but both have been going down the tubes, and the argument can be made that they have always had a pretty big cringe problem.
Is there a platform or platforms more geared toward artists and/or writers like either of those two centralized sites? Pixelfed maybe? But I get the impression that it’s more Instagram as opposed to Deviantart. Writefreely for Wattpad? Are either very similar to those centralized sites at all?
Not federated (yet?) But there is a FOSS Deviant art alternative: https://github.com/Weasyl/weasyl
Pixelfed also has some community features and should work fine for art sharing.
Yes, for Pixelfed. in the future they plan on making features so the site can be used as art portfolio. Even though I think it can be used now for that.