The joy of trying to go to someone's Twitter and finding it's just a jumbled endless scroll of retweets, "here's what I had for breakfast", and other miscellaneous stuff, where the art can be surprisingly tricky to find.

Even going to the media tab it's a scrollfest of things. You can't at a glance see what's art and what's a screenshot of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, now play for free up to level 50.

At least Mastodon UI has a media tab that's square gallery preview tiles, and Pixelfed is an actual gallery-like site anyway.

Credit to Mr Musk: I don't have a Twitter account, and checking out what's trending used to be a fun way to procrastinate/kill some time. So with that gone I very rarely bother visiting nowadays. When I do, it's fun to see the paid ads, because they're so obviously scams. Or illegal in the case of one I spotted this week, which is a handy "camping and hiking tool" that looks suspiciously like a spring-loaded extendable baton with a weighted tip, shown busting a car window and a metal pipe in the video.

Moreover, wasn’t it a migration out from downgraded birb app to here like… a few months prior? What is this ping pong even aaa

Yipyip! I'm willing to give invite links, too. :3 Finding the furry fediverse to be a very positive experience overall, and I wish for the userbase to continue growing!

I couldn't agree more about that. There are literally several better options out there, why go to twitter specifically? The sad thing is that I follow several friends/artists who use twitter exclusively, and it's made it next to impossible to stop using it altogether when that's the only way I can see their posts. (After lots of scrolling... >.>)

Also hard agree on the lunacy of choosing IB to avoid cub stuff. Sure, it has a blacklist feature, but that's ignoring the fact that they outright support it, and have for roughly a decade now. :/ I'll admit that I made an account on there weeks after the site first went live, and was hoping it would become an FA killer at the time. That was before all the cub artists moved there in a mass exodus after being banned on FA. Now it has that stigma attached to it, and probably will for the rest of that site's lifespan...

Furries like poorly done sites. :P

"FA's outdated."
"Well, we got a site here that's more up to date on things."
"Eeeeeh...."
"Hey guys, we're Twitter!"
"I'm Tumblr! I'm like if Twitter and dA had a baby that inherited every negative trait!"
"SIGN ME THE UP!"

I always get annoyed when people dunk on FA but are using twitter.

Granted, the 2.7 policy change makes it more understandable to have a reason move to a different platform, but whatever issues one has with FA, twitter will have tenfold.

Tbh fa is my ONLY social media outlet and im just here to draw and look at what i like. Lol

Makes sense! Amazed you can scroll at all, blimp >:3

::angry inflated sausage fingers start typing::

People go to twitter for a larger audience, and while actual engagement numbers may be higher on FA, it's not necessarily -good- engagement. I know a number of artists who have dumped their FA presence because of poor experiences with FA customers.

As for mastodon, it's simply not a replacement. Even outside of the numbers and the lack of more global users, it's Furnet Social Media in all the worst ways.

That's also ignoring being able to interact with audiences who just don't have as much of an FA presence as they do Twitter, like the Japanese furry space, who lean more towards their own gallery sites like Pixiv.

As for mastodon, it's simply not a replacement. Even outside of the numbers and the lack of more global users, it's Furnet Social Media in all the worst ways.

That's also ignoring being able to interact with audiences who just don't have as much of an FA presence as they do Twitter, like the Japanese furry space, who lean more towards their own gallery sites like Pixiv.

Not to mention how fragmented and unstable the Fediverse can be. Some people want that silo where they can just talk with people, instead of trying to figure out what servers can talk with what other servers, or worrying that the content they want to interact with might suddenly become inaccessible. Past incidents with some Masto servers straight-up hard-blocking any Pleroma instance comes to mind (and is why I stopped running my own private instance). Not to mention the number of fediverse servers that *have* to block Japanese servers due to media content laws in their own countries.

Like... I'm on the Fediverse (I'm on Blimpstodon, and I thank you for that Kay!), but I've also come to realize just how stressful it is to deal with how much it can change from one moment to the next. Especially when news of servers dropping off the map comes up, like with vulpine.club's upcoming shutdown. People don't wanna worry about having to pack up and partially start all over if the place comes apart, or if their instance suddenly gets defederated over drama or abuse.

The Fediverse is a constant scary unknown, while Twitter has its history of being somewhat stable. That inertia is going to be really difficult to get past with all of the uncertainties that comes with the Fediverse as a whole.

"this cub art ruling is confusing imma panic and leave" *makes an account over at cub central"
I don't get people at all

I feel it's only because of its size that people move to Twitter, and not exactly the sort of big I'd enjoy. It's more exposure, sure, and certainly a more casual posting, but only convenient for the artist in question, and it sucks hard.

I'm on FA as its where everyone is. Coupled with upcoming Twitter changes, it will be very hard to find commissions if I didn't look here too. Also why I'm on Meow Social, its where people are at but handy how I can still see people on Blimps, etc.

I heard of Itaku last night, didn't know what it is.