Something something policy change 4 days ago?

It’s like everyone forgot about it

If there was a FA policy change I must of missed it. I only just came back here.
You'll have to treat me like someone who just walked through the door, carrying pizza boxes with a surprised expression.

It was a poorly-worded policy change to deal with child porn, primarily in the case of "loli" from Japan. The issu with loli being that you have 900-year-old in the body of a 9-year-old and it ends up looking like child porn. A good amount of hay was made from the "proportions" and "no we're really not banning short people, evolutionary stages, or kobolds" but as per usual everyone panicked, er, remained calm and let logic rather than emotion guide them.

Naaaaah, LiveJournal ;) !

oooo... that would be amaaaazing to get that community happenin' again!

What's "social media"?

I think what went down was less of mass exodus, and more of a mass preparation. Not everyone fully left FA, some folks had to, but a lot of folks were setting up Itaku and others, as a 'in case of' so they have things ready somewhere else

(shrug) I never left. And I echo to dA and SoFurry, so...(shrug)
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Lord the excuses people used to leave have been many and varied but the site's marched on, even now.

I’ve never left.

Welcome back! Been a long time since you were last active here.

I still miss WordPress.com. I can be long-winded there, and make it look pretty.

Never left, this is where all the content still gets posted, and what doesn't ends up on e621 eventually anyway. I'm not an artist so the policy stuff doesn't really impact me a side from the loss of some artists who got caught up in it.

I never left. Twitter is a horrible substitute for an art gallery.

I also never left, and have no plan to. People are reacting as they usually do in this fandom.
'Oh, you don't like what *I* do?! I'm gonna go start my own website with poker! ...and hookers!'
...then they realize that there isn't really a lot out there that accepts what they're interested in.

Others were doing 'prep work' just in case they had to leave. Opening other accounts and duping their content there just in case the admins and mods here singled them out.

It happened when they cracked down on people writing actual detailed journals on how to have sex with your pets.

It happened when they basically banned cub porn (though I've since seen it here and there with no apparent issues, so who knows what the rules are at this point?).

And the way they rolled out this other rule was vague enough that even I made some effort to understand what it was they were trying to ban. It sounded for a bit like any small, short, youthful or naturally undeveloped (read as 'no boobs') character would be auto banned and the accounts attached to them would as well.

It also doesn't help that for some reason, FA is plagued by people who don't work for the site, but seem to believe they need to scan through potentially years of content for ANY small thing that might violate a site rule, even if it was submitted a very long time ago before said rule existed. The fact that the admins and mods aren't doing anything about this practice is very strange to me; if someone submitted an image of a character 10 years ago, and then you change a rule, and someone comes to report a 10 YEAR old image, why are you banning people as if said submission is that old?

Anyway. I don't see any point or reason to leave. If or when FA implodes, *then* I'll move someplace else. Until then, people have been literally doing this 'exodus, then return' thing, both individually and en masse, for a very long time. I've been here for decades, and I see it over and over. It's nothing new.

I'm always here.
For social media, I'm on fediverse sites coz I'm tired of VC funded BS.
But without the engagement-driving algorithms, that kinda broke my addiction to checking my feed so now I mostly get my socializing from realtime chats (mostly Telegram currently)

I remember you! Remember seeing some of your 3D works long ago and being quite impressed :)

Hah. HAH. I'm going to IRC and nobody can stop me! ... or better yet, MUCKs!

I have actually taken a wander of some of the old Mucs. It was pretty grim, some had no one on them at all, if they were actually up.

I'm just derelict in general. Platform independent executive dysfunction hooray!

I think there has been some reactivating of old accounts as Twitter has gotten more toxic but that is all I've seen. :)

shorter version of the FA uproar from my perspective: FA made a rule to crack down on lolibait that may include other shorter, adult characters that relies on the judgement of FA mods, which has been notoriously fickle and changing based on the moderator. It wasn't great.

I do hope that furries repopulate more furry spaces, though

Wow! It’s been such a long time, welcome back! xD seeing your icon teleported me back in time like 10 years

Still keep an eye on FA. But that’s about it.

I think most of the artists I've seen on the twitters saying they're leaving it are leaving for everywhere but FA, but I've always just kinda been here. Then again I'm not as much of a creator these days, so "being here" for me mostly means keeping up on my follows and whatnot.

Never left FA either. I usually had not much to post so it seemed like im absent :')

Same here really. I've been checking in a few times a week, just never saying anything.

I never left.

There's something to be said for community websites that aren't owned by some big conglomerate.

Well, since Twitter is now called "X" (because Mr. I-Can-Screw-Twitter-Because-I-Am-A-Millonaire-Overgrown-Child made unnecesary changes to it), it's not a worthy platform to submit artwork anymore and now I'm here more actively than before
Even a lot of furs joined that new place called Bluesky, which is a replacement created by the Twitter's team themselves