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PSA: Redundancy is Good (indirectly about the policy upda...
2 years ago
I’m not normally one to comment on these things as others usually said it first and better, but my message is from a different angle.
I have worked in IT for over 30 years. For a good chunk of that time my focus was High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity. Basically my role was to find and eliminate any single point of failure.
Words of wisdom I heard long ago: there are 2 kinds of system – those that have already failed and those that will. While that was referring to hardware the warning also applies outside the world of IT.
The idea of relying on and keeping things all in one place makes things easy but is also incredibly risky.
Redundancy is a safety net. Just as my files at home are backed up to multiple different locations (including offsite) the art in my galleries are posted to 3 different furry sites.
The more spread out you are the harder it is to get completely shutdown. You don’t have to leave FA, but it shouldn’t be your only home. Yes, if this is currently your only home it’s going to be a lot of work to replicate to other sites. But once the initial uploads are done maintaining them in sync is easy. The piece of mind knowing a site outage or the whims of others can’t take you down is well worth the effort.
The time to build redundancy was when everything looked fine, but if you haven’t started do so now. Its better to copy your content to new homes before the old one is gone.
We all smell the smoke, whether its a campfire or a forest fire is yet to be seen. Have somewhere to go in case this one turns to ash.
I have worked in IT for over 30 years. For a good chunk of that time my focus was High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity. Basically my role was to find and eliminate any single point of failure.
Words of wisdom I heard long ago: there are 2 kinds of system – those that have already failed and those that will. While that was referring to hardware the warning also applies outside the world of IT.
The idea of relying on and keeping things all in one place makes things easy but is also incredibly risky.
Redundancy is a safety net. Just as my files at home are backed up to multiple different locations (including offsite) the art in my galleries are posted to 3 different furry sites.
The more spread out you are the harder it is to get completely shutdown. You don’t have to leave FA, but it shouldn’t be your only home. Yes, if this is currently your only home it’s going to be a lot of work to replicate to other sites. But once the initial uploads are done maintaining them in sync is easy. The piece of mind knowing a site outage or the whims of others can’t take you down is well worth the effort.
The time to build redundancy was when everything looked fine, but if you haven’t started do so now. Its better to copy your content to new homes before the old one is gone.
We all smell the smoke, whether its a campfire or a forest fire is yet to be seen. Have somewhere to go in case this one turns to ash.
That said, I do encourage anyone worried about this policy change to migrate their galleries to new locations like Inkbunny or Pixiv. FA seems hellbent on chasing out their users one group at a time.
I cant use inkbunny as its illegal in my country, Twitter only holds on to 1000 media posts before they start dropping off into oblivion, deviantart is a hellscape full of trolls about the content I draw....theres nowhere to realistically go.. I know a lot of people are freaking out but all FA is doing is bringing their rules in line with certain countries.
Here in the UK any character that has a child like body engaging in sexual activity is illegal, so their policy change is basically encompassing that, but i dont know why they're pulling FA into line with UK laws when its not a UK run website.
Can you get around the IB thing if you proved you blocked all of the CP tags? That's what I did since its not banned in my state...yet. The US is working on it though. I heard Utah banned it. Maybe that's why FA is getting strict?...
Anyway, maybe for you it's a case of only getting in trouble if they come to your house during a search and see it?
But i told people this would be an issue if we chose IB as the new hub. In some countries its banned, in others straight up illegal if caught.
Also, as for the rules, they say one thing but then do another. They've told people that they have to remove art purely based on art styles being "too cute". It's sad and scary considering most people with short OCs, especially pokemon, draw cute.
Some journals have mentioned Weasly and Pixiv though I don't know much about them.
So a Pikachu can't be in an NSFW scene, unless maybe its got greying fur and is waving a cane while shouting "get off my lawn!"