cohost! is a neat place, i discovered some artists there

Oh man, I tried cohost for a day but I despise the way it handles searching for art. Otherwise its decent tumblr alternative.

Itaku is an art gallery where a lot of people from Twitter moved to. It's a little active. It doesn't get a lot of engagement but a lot of artists use postybirb to post on multiple websites so you don't have to spend a lot of time just to expand your reach. Porn's allowed!

BlueSky is where a lot of Twitter folks left to for social media. I think it has a good little furry following and activity - obviously not as much as twitter but it seems worth investing in if you have friends and an audience there, porn's allowed there too.

Other sites fell off kinda quick - PillowFort tried to be tumblr and is struggling. Co-Host was invite only, took too long to capitalize on people needing a site to escape to - I dunno if it's popular or used at all, probably not. Haha, DeviantArt surprisingly has people there still, but obviously they don't allow porn, just nudity, and the site's a bit gross hehe. InkBunny's always a weird topic and a bit mixed, at least it has a good filter to block out stuff you don't like. Tumblr never recovered, it's just a small niche spot for poeple who'll never leave it. And Weasyl I imagine is still very slow and dead too.

Oh! But a lot of artists do have either their own discord or telegram group these days. (: Porn's allowed in both, and honestly sometimes just having a handful of active people there enjoying your work can be really nice. <3 That, or join one! But a lot of people join discords, drop off pictures, and don't really engage and don't get engagement so... good to put actual care into the one you use. :3

Yeah, I was afraid to hear Telegram and Discord suggested, I'm not built to be 'king of my own castle' I can share art with mutual on discord when I think of them. but I'm not about to make my own group, I'm not self-absorbed enough for that. lol Inversely, I'm sad lots of artists ONLY post on those two, like, how do I even discover them in that case?

Itaku & Bluesky are ones I did try, but honestly they all felt completely dead right away; plenty of artist were posting, but there was no activity between people.

artfight or *gag* deviantart

Artfight? I thought that was just a site to do yearly art trades? I guess it'd kinda HAVE to host galleries in that case.

BlueSky for sure.

Been trying that one; but I think it being a copy of twitter's format doesn't help. It wasn't built for hosting art, and it still isn't.

I've been using IB more since the...incident last year. A lot of pokemon and "smol" artists jumped ship for being ridiculed and all, like argonvile and Kaittycat and GrimArt and Radasus and AsbieArts and.....well, you get the picture. Weasyl was basically DoA and SoFurry died off in favor of FA merely out of popularity.

Honestly, the fact that it's the only art gallery with working blacklists is absolutely astonishing to me.

It's certainly a place I could exclusively post nsfw.

Additionally, it also has the benefit of having a Friends system, where you can upload submissions that can only be seen by people on your friends list without affecting the public gallery.

I recommend Itaku. Modern, posting is easy, blacklists work, made with users in mind.