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a year ago
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Just curious. Wifey and I have been trying it on at a few other galleries and social platforms to see if there's a good(er?) place to cross-post, especially when it comes to pop-culture fan-art, funnies, shitposting, and miscellaneous SFW stuff not necessarily of a furry nature. Or are you exclusive to FA?
Not that I don't love this big, sweaty pile of furry porn. Obviously way too much evidence to the contrary hanging around here! But am I correct in thinking that FA is mostly for the horny art these days? No shame or shade intended. I'm still catching up on the platform trends of the last decade... I used to browse the front page here for finding all kinds of new artists to follow, but it's fast lately and I'm slow. I've mostly been prowling other folk's recent faves and lurking tags for fresh meat, instead. Surely that's not the norm, but there doesn't seem to be much in the way of useful filtering around here currently...
So are you more of a gallerini or a tweeterino? I keep finding myself veering towards archive-style sites like this one and my own personal site, mostly for the editing and version control. I will also fully admit that I've never really been able to grok Twitter/Bluesky/etc., possibly due to the fact that I'm a werehermit (every full moon I become a recluse for the rest of the month).
What's good?
Not that I don't love this big, sweaty pile of furry porn. Obviously way too much evidence to the contrary hanging around here! But am I correct in thinking that FA is mostly for the horny art these days? No shame or shade intended. I'm still catching up on the platform trends of the last decade... I used to browse the front page here for finding all kinds of new artists to follow, but it's fast lately and I'm slow. I've mostly been prowling other folk's recent faves and lurking tags for fresh meat, instead. Surely that's not the norm, but there doesn't seem to be much in the way of useful filtering around here currently...
So are you more of a gallerini or a tweeterino? I keep finding myself veering towards archive-style sites like this one and my own personal site, mostly for the editing and version control. I will also fully admit that I've never really been able to grok Twitter/Bluesky/etc., possibly due to the fact that I'm a werehermit (every full moon I become a recluse for the rest of the month).
What's good?
I really like this particular style of internet, where stuff is neatly organized for searching and browsing, and conversations are threaded in a way that's easy to follow. My inner caveman has been screaming since I came back, but I toss him a brontosaurus burger every now and then while I scratch at the walls.
Def miss the oekaki days, much harder to find small active communities of artists :)
Do you find a rating system like the one at Newgrounds to be discouraging or the opposite? It seems like it would invite abuse, but I also wonder if it doesn't coax out slightly more interaction than just an option to fave. Rin and I have been mulling over this one for a while, and when it comes right down to it, the vibe we miss the most is definitely oekaki. The groups were small, but the passion was big! Fearsome's still limping along, but the heyday for oekaki boards seems to have passed...
Then after a while, I set up postybirb with entries with everyone with a nitter instance so people without an account can see what people I'm drawing for. I set it while I'm doing something else for Furaffinity.
Afterwards, once I get enough people, I go to Bluesky and see what people I can find there, and repost the art there. This time, the art is posted to the main feed rather than as a reply.
And finally, Cohost. Slower, but I do like the culture and hows set up, so I just fill the drafts queue with people I drew for so I can once in a while publish them.
Thanks for sharing your method!
newgrounds still exists, and tumblr still exists. they're both the same old sites they were, for what that's worth but tumblr "banned" porn years ago to prove their profit didn't come from horny.
a lot of people have gone to mastadon for posting less horny art. baraag is the super horny version, but that's if you want REALLY fucked up stuff.
a lot of furries seem to have gotten on pillowfort, which otherwise isn't picking up traction.
none of these do everything, i have no idea why, and i most just post on videogame forums to tell people they're playing the game wrong because i deserve something for me. and trolling is cheaper than booze right now.
Honestly, I'm a little baffled at how social media became the default for archiving art. After Tumblr changed its mind on the porn, I realized that a huge number of my artist bookmarks simply led to nothing. Best I can tell, a decent number of them either weren't in the habit of cross-posting, or simply decided it wasn't worth starting over post-nuke. I thought it might lead to a surge in new accounts at places like this, but it sounds like everyone just doubled down with different flavors of social. Makes me wonder what'll happen to the Tower of Twitter in a year's time.
As far as gettin' down and dirty in the forums, dare I wonder aloud... Reddit? Or is that just asking for trouble?
you should look up linktree, which is basically a one-stop page for posting all the olaces you post your content to. since every social media place keeps redesinging their model and every artist needs to compete for attention everywhere, having a single link for sending people to to find what sites you haven't abandoned could help you. it'll at least streamline the part where you gotta have links to everywehre else if you have that. not that you can't make a page on your own site that does that.........
i think a lot of current artists simply did not grow up without social media and think it's ideal due to their lack of other examples (aside from devientart and .....they're somehow built worse now) so they keep kicking themselves in the dick on engagement.
I've noticed a lot of folks using their profile blurb kind of like Linktree, and I definitely appreciate the artists who go out of their way to make themselves available everywhere. I should probably get something like that going at OHP's site so people don't think I've croaked! Rin's been all about PostyBirb, which seems like a nice way to get fast coverage across the spectrum, but I doubt my personal ability to stay actively engaged across more than a few sites at once...
I got a little excited when I stumbled across Itaku, since it has a pretty robust feature set for artists, tag trees, and honest-to-god filtering. Vibe's a bit weird, though... Like there's a ton of activity, but very little talking. I like the attempt to fuse posting and tweeting into one platform. Doesn't seem to have the gravitational pull of FA just yet, but maybe someday? I'd actually like to see some of those features here!