Other places to set up accounts?
2 years ago
Because I'm ancient, I've only kept up on a couple of sites, and I know there are people here who are far more experienced with other sites.
What places would you recommend I set up an account on?
What are the pros and cons of said site?
Thank you for your help, I appreciate it.
What places would you recommend I set up an account on?
What are the pros and cons of said site?
Thank you for your help, I appreciate it.
I can't say I use all of them evenly. I really only joined the last few out of a fear that I'd miss some piece of...er, relevant artwork. But I've uploaded token things to all of them, and mentioned in the descriptions that I also post things at other places.
Spreading yourself around might the the wise move. Or as the saying goes, don't shove all your eggs up one hole.
You might get a few fandom purity zealots throw words at you because IB doesn't share their views on regulating 'acceptable fictional scenes' but lets be honest, now days you can't do anything without pissing off someone, somewhere.
Besides that, pissing off people who want to have 'fictional' or 'thought' crime as a ban able offense, just by using a site that doesn't do that is probably the right thing to do anyway.
I will soon be resorting to either making my own private little website, or just posting my art somewhere like a Telegram-Group or Discord.
These places arent rly safe anymore.
Someday the police may even get involved in checking these websites (more like Raiding) for illegal material. I wont be here when that happens, thats for sure.
My advice, is to use Discord or Telegram instead of hanging around in these now dangerous sites.
InkBunny: Freedom to post, but no humans. Wonderful tag and blacklist system. Community and mods are... ... Somewhat dubious at times... Seeing as they have defended literal pedophiles, and have a large following of death cultists who will troll the fuck out of people who don't join with them or show an inkling of progressive points of view.
SoFurry: Great for writers, but only okay for artists when it comes to exposure. Moderation team is nice, but limited on interaction from what I've seen. Feels a little jank in UI.
Weasyl: Run by popular idiots who believe popularity is more important than community... Also mostly dead.
FurryNetwork: Mostly dead, a failed attempt by DF to create their own FA with blackjack and hookers, but they forgot those last two things. Mostly dead, only used by artists who satellite there these days.
e621: A booru-style board that houses a LOT of trolls and deviants. The tag system is good, but also required to get down to pat. Moderators can be as bad as here on judgment calls at times. You can have your art removed for 'not being up to standard'.
VCL: Rest in peace.
Pixiv: You'll develop a good Japanese fanbase, the kemono furs are lovely if you're not being a degenerate... But there's currently a real life pedophile problem. The other problem is that moderation prefers Japanese speaking, and you need to censor your art's genitalia. It has a great search and tag function, that they've even modified to be more English Speaker friendly in recent years! But again, language barrier with fans.
Twitter: Run by complete idiots. HORRIBLE for galleries, but great for keeping up with people and artists. Filled with death cultists and keyboard warriors who will judge and attack your art.
Mastadon: The better twitter, but still horrible for galleries. A social network isn't an art gallery.
Itaku: One of the newer ones, I have no opinion on it yet, sorry! ;w;!
That's all I know for now. There's others, like imgur for sfw/non-extreme nsfw stuff, but those are more of storage sites. ;w;... Sorry!