Considering new platforms
3 years ago
Anyone who pays attention to my random rants in the last years probably knows how much I hate twitter, long before Musk said he wanted buy that shit I already hated it, and now he made it even worse, not just in the political perspective but in a more technical too, his plan is essentially making twitter pay to win, I'm not really willing to pay and also I'm very in favour of shaming and bullying people who buy it.
But even if I I was a techcuck Elon fanboy willing to buy it I don't see how it would benefit me, I think my most engaged post on twitter had like 300 likes at maximum and it was under very special conditions,my drawings are ok by themselves but they are not complete without my long text stories,what is not really compatible with twitter.Now you may ask: "All your works are already here and you have a solid audience why look for a new place?" it's simple the longevity of Furaffinity worries me and if it disappears I don't want to vanish with it, this site had improvements in the last years but it still severe obsolete to its very core, its like taking a car from the 50"s and trying to ham in modern tech stuff on it, you can do it at certain point but there's a limit, and in case of fA I think the only way to progress would to remake it entirely, codding is not my strong suit but even in my limited knowledge I can see how such a migration would be a technical nightmare with massive costs and perhaps even impossible,but still, I would love to see fA reborn like they did with DeviantArt.
Right now I'm considering using Tumblr and a private Telegram channel. "but Tumblr dosen't allow porn!" yes but most of my work is not really porn, its just erotic, also if you are among the people who don't know why Tumblr forbids porn, you should read the official statement from their CEO, in that he details the reasons and show who the real villains behind the overall censorship (its VISA and MASTERCARD in case you are too lazy to read the whole thing) I already have a solid account on Deviantart, but I don't allow interactions there at the moment (too much normies and 13yo edgelords) I also have a Facebook account,but Facebook is one of the worst cesspools I ever seen, like 99% of the accounts there are braindead unfunny shitposters or art thieves.
"What about Twitter alternatives like Gab and Parler?" if these alternatives sincerely passed through you head you are either misinformed or dumb, these knockoffs are just worse versions of twitter done by rabid rightoids who wanted to vent their rage against minorites publicaly without being banned, they were never meant to be nice or productive places, and they will probably go bankrupt now that twitter is allowing the same shit.
"We must stay on twitter and help to lower its value to defeat Musk!" stop, this is stupid, NOTHING you do normally is hurting him no matter how bizarre your kink drawings are you ain't even gonna make a dent on his profits, this doesn't scare brands, you wanna know who is currently fucking twitter hard? crazy recently unbanned edgelords spamming gore,slurs and hateful rethoric, this is what is making advertisers drop, the "free speech warriors" are sinking Elon's ship...If I was a horrible person I would suggest for the ones with urge to fight, creating twitter sock puppet accounts while using a vpn to spread even more chaos in the comment section of large rightwing figures, but that would be horrible, I would never suggest such thing. c;
For the moment I will not delete my Twitter account, but I don't guarantee activity there, I still curious to see how it ends, probably he will have to curb the "free speech" of his fanboys a little and eventually it just returns to the previous status quo, or he really goes ham with it and drives twitter to bankrupcy, or even better, he goes completly insane an throws himself from the tallest window available...that would be a remarkably funny ending. :U
But even if I I was a techcuck Elon fanboy willing to buy it I don't see how it would benefit me, I think my most engaged post on twitter had like 300 likes at maximum and it was under very special conditions,my drawings are ok by themselves but they are not complete without my long text stories,what is not really compatible with twitter.Now you may ask: "All your works are already here and you have a solid audience why look for a new place?" it's simple the longevity of Furaffinity worries me and if it disappears I don't want to vanish with it, this site had improvements in the last years but it still severe obsolete to its very core, its like taking a car from the 50"s and trying to ham in modern tech stuff on it, you can do it at certain point but there's a limit, and in case of fA I think the only way to progress would to remake it entirely, codding is not my strong suit but even in my limited knowledge I can see how such a migration would be a technical nightmare with massive costs and perhaps even impossible,but still, I would love to see fA reborn like they did with DeviantArt.
Right now I'm considering using Tumblr and a private Telegram channel. "but Tumblr dosen't allow porn!" yes but most of my work is not really porn, its just erotic, also if you are among the people who don't know why Tumblr forbids porn, you should read the official statement from their CEO, in that he details the reasons and show who the real villains behind the overall censorship (its VISA and MASTERCARD in case you are too lazy to read the whole thing) I already have a solid account on Deviantart, but I don't allow interactions there at the moment (too much normies and 13yo edgelords) I also have a Facebook account,but Facebook is one of the worst cesspools I ever seen, like 99% of the accounts there are braindead unfunny shitposters or art thieves.
"What about Twitter alternatives like Gab and Parler?" if these alternatives sincerely passed through you head you are either misinformed or dumb, these knockoffs are just worse versions of twitter done by rabid rightoids who wanted to vent their rage against minorites publicaly without being banned, they were never meant to be nice or productive places, and they will probably go bankrupt now that twitter is allowing the same shit.
"We must stay on twitter and help to lower its value to defeat Musk!" stop, this is stupid, NOTHING you do normally is hurting him no matter how bizarre your kink drawings are you ain't even gonna make a dent on his profits, this doesn't scare brands, you wanna know who is currently fucking twitter hard? crazy recently unbanned edgelords spamming gore,slurs and hateful rethoric, this is what is making advertisers drop, the "free speech warriors" are sinking Elon's ship...If I was a horrible person I would suggest for the ones with urge to fight, creating twitter sock puppet accounts while using a vpn to spread even more chaos in the comment section of large rightwing figures, but that would be horrible, I would never suggest such thing. c;
For the moment I will not delete my Twitter account, but I don't guarantee activity there, I still curious to see how it ends, probably he will have to curb the "free speech" of his fanboys a little and eventually it just returns to the previous status quo, or he really goes ham with it and drives twitter to bankrupcy, or even better, he goes completly insane an throws himself from the tallest window available...that would be a remarkably funny ending. :U
And I've seen more "artistic nudes" there since they added content guidelines.