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2 years ago
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With Twitter repeatedly shooting itself in the foot I'm finally getting off my ass and starting to poke at some new platforms as well. I set up a Postybirb after knowing about it for years and just being a little too tired of needing to get new stuff to stay online, but now is as good a time as any to learn I suppose. So in addition to FA, Tumblr, and Twitter, I can now also be found at Itaku, Cohost, and Bluesky!
UncommonCritter is my main name on all three of those new places, and may someday be changed here if FA ever finally gets in name changing. On Cohost I also have Dergorb for nsfw and kink artwork, and eventually I'll have that sort of side profile for Bluesky as well. Itaku has a split sfw and ad profile feature, which I like, but doesn't seem to allow the usernames to be separate, which is a bummer. Despite letting FA be a big mashup of everything, I like being able to split my profiles for sfw and nsfw art overall under different names for those who only want to see the sfw OR only want the fun weird stuff. Hoping they allow that in the future. For now, that's what I got down and I need to take some time to make a new icon and banner since its been a good few years since I've touched that at all.
In addition to these new websites, I'm debating making a public Discord server for art posting and chatting. Unfortunately I have a lot of anxieties around running such a thing though, so this is more to put the idea into the world in a way that I may come back to. I'll have to learn how to add and use some bots for easier role management, but if I can get that all set up I'll be making a journal about it as well.
As long as FA stays floatin along I'll do my damndest to post here too, so no worries on this dragon leaving here. I just wish I could make my username consistent with what I've swapped it to and well. I don't really want to fully remake my FA.
Unrelated to all of this a secret announcement within the announcement! I will be vending at both BLFC and PAWcon this year! That week is going to be insane! I'm hoping to have a few prints for the first time at those, and if I can I'd love to put together some small zines with kind of the best of sketches I've done over the past couple years. We'll see if that happens at all what with needing to do college courses at the same time. I hope to see people there!
UncommonCritter is my main name on all three of those new places, and may someday be changed here if FA ever finally gets in name changing. On Cohost I also have Dergorb for nsfw and kink artwork, and eventually I'll have that sort of side profile for Bluesky as well. Itaku has a split sfw and ad profile feature, which I like, but doesn't seem to allow the usernames to be separate, which is a bummer. Despite letting FA be a big mashup of everything, I like being able to split my profiles for sfw and nsfw art overall under different names for those who only want to see the sfw OR only want the fun weird stuff. Hoping they allow that in the future. For now, that's what I got down and I need to take some time to make a new icon and banner since its been a good few years since I've touched that at all.
In addition to these new websites, I'm debating making a public Discord server for art posting and chatting. Unfortunately I have a lot of anxieties around running such a thing though, so this is more to put the idea into the world in a way that I may come back to. I'll have to learn how to add and use some bots for easier role management, but if I can get that all set up I'll be making a journal about it as well.
As long as FA stays floatin along I'll do my damndest to post here too, so no worries on this dragon leaving here. I just wish I could make my username consistent with what I've swapped it to and well. I don't really want to fully remake my FA.
Unrelated to all of this a secret announcement within the announcement! I will be vending at both BLFC and PAWcon this year! That week is going to be insane! I'm hoping to have a few prints for the first time at those, and if I can I'd love to put together some small zines with kind of the best of sketches I've done over the past couple years. We'll see if that happens at all what with needing to do college courses at the same time. I hope to see people there!
Mastodon I tried. I really did. But after several instances dying due to them getting too large, admin beef, etc, I'm really not into it. Its an option if literally nothing else works for me since its also not particularly great for art sharing. Bluesky looks to be eventually doing a similar federated platform but with ripping the twitter ui, so should similar issues crop up and/or no traction happens I'll likely lose interest in it.
Ultimately nothing is a replacement for Twitter since it had been long developing a large userbase, and that's evaporating with people kinda going everywhere.