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You can now follow me on FA! With caveats..
a year ago
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You can now follow me on FA! But if there's any other platform that you use, you'll have a better time following me there.
There are a few limitations:
★ Artwork I upload to FA will be lower resolution: This isn't something I control, the fact is that FA's maximum resolution is just lower than most other sites that I use, even for downsized art.
★ Some of my artwork won't be on here: This is also something I can't control. I am going to attempt to safely comply with Furaffinity's 2.7 rules as best as I can. In the absence of clarity about those rules I'll have to keep some of my artwork off of the site. To be 100% clear, every character that I draw is an adult. But for my own safety I pawbably won't upload Pokemon pictures to Furaffinity and I'll avoid uploading any artwork that features shorter characters. I don't know where that line will be because I don't know what FA's line is.
★ Some of my artwork will be censored: FA lacks anything resembling a functional tagging system. In other sites, artists can use thumbnails as content warnings, but FA turns off thumbnails by default. What this means is that there is effectively no way for anypony using FA to protect themselves from seeing more extreme artwork. I have a diverse set of followers on other sites that have different levels of tolerance for content. There are sex-averse asexuals who want to follow The Forest. There are fluffers who can only handle endo vore. I want to keep them safe while still letting fluffers who like my more extreme work with scat or disposal know when I've uploaded pics with those themes. The compromise I've come up with is to censor any artwork that I upload with extreme elements like scat and to link to uncensored versions of those images on other sites. I want fluffers who aren't into that stuff to be able to follow this account, and unfortunately FA does not offer any tools at all for them to protect themselves. It's up to me to make sure that they feel safe loading up their feeds.
The biggest incentive I'm offering for fluffers on FA to follow me on other platforms is this:
★ I will be offering discounts to commissioners who commission me elsewhere: I'm still working on the details, but I expect some of my commission prices on other sites other than FA to drop by around $5 an hour. This means that commissioning me and coordinating with me off of FA will be cheaper than commissioning me on FA. This is a deliberate incentive. The other limitations to my gallery are the result of restrictions or a lack of features on FA itself. They're not me being punitive to the platform, they're me trying to use the platform as it exists today. But commission prices are meant to be an incentive. I want you to follow me elsewhere. I want you to try other gallery sites - not just as artists but as users, because if you're a user who's only browsing on FA, you are the reason why artists are here.
And so I want you to get in to the habit of following artists on other platforms other than FA.
The problems i brought up a year ago (https://sfw.furaffinity.net/journal/10569374/) were never resolved and will likely never be fixed. A year later trying to find clarity on how this all played out, I'm finding that there never was any clarity provided. This is not a safe platform for artists to use, and the community would be better served by moving elsewhere. In addition, FA as a gallery site is indefensibly broken. Tag blocking is not a "nice-to-have", it is a fundamentally necessary feature that should disqualify any gallery site from being called a safe or serious platform. You simply can not keep a community safe without a culture of tagging images and a set of tools to use tags to hide content, it is impossible. And so FA is not a safe website for sensitive furs.
And truthfully, FA is not going to improve on any of those points. It is naive to believe otherwise. Things will only ever get better and the community will only ever be safer and more accessible if we go somewhere else.
So while I'm going to do the absolute best I can to make my FA gallery as good as I can, and while I'm going to have an absolute blast interacting with talented artists and sharing art with anypony who wants to see it <3, I'm also not going to be shy, at all, about encouraging fluffers away from this platform. Because it has to happen. Better platforms exist today, and the only thing holding them back is the furry community's willingness to use them.
You can follow me here, I'd love to have you around. But while you're here, please consider taking a step towards a better community as well.
If you'd like to follow me on other platforms as well as on FA, you can find me on:
★ Itaku: https://itaku.ee/profile/foxyoreos
★ Aryion: https://aryion.com/g4/user/foxyoreos
★ Mastodon: https://gulp.cafe/@foxyoreos
★ Inkbunny: https://inkbunny.net/foxyoreos
★ Weasyl: https://www.weasyl.com/~foxyoreos
★ Subscribestar: https://subscribestar.adult/foxyoreos
★ # https://foxyoreos.itch.io/
You can message me on SIgnal (foxyoreos.66) or Matrix (@foxyoreos:bark.lgbt). I maintain a local fork of Postybirb that makes tagging easier (https://codeberg.org/foxyoreos/postybirb-plus-local-changes) if you'd like help mirroring posts to both FA and other galleries. Get in touch if you'd like help with anything <3
There are a few limitations:
★ Artwork I upload to FA will be lower resolution: This isn't something I control, the fact is that FA's maximum resolution is just lower than most other sites that I use, even for downsized art.
★ Some of my artwork won't be on here: This is also something I can't control. I am going to attempt to safely comply with Furaffinity's 2.7 rules as best as I can. In the absence of clarity about those rules I'll have to keep some of my artwork off of the site. To be 100% clear, every character that I draw is an adult. But for my own safety I pawbably won't upload Pokemon pictures to Furaffinity and I'll avoid uploading any artwork that features shorter characters. I don't know where that line will be because I don't know what FA's line is.
★ Some of my artwork will be censored: FA lacks anything resembling a functional tagging system. In other sites, artists can use thumbnails as content warnings, but FA turns off thumbnails by default. What this means is that there is effectively no way for anypony using FA to protect themselves from seeing more extreme artwork. I have a diverse set of followers on other sites that have different levels of tolerance for content. There are sex-averse asexuals who want to follow The Forest. There are fluffers who can only handle endo vore. I want to keep them safe while still letting fluffers who like my more extreme work with scat or disposal know when I've uploaded pics with those themes. The compromise I've come up with is to censor any artwork that I upload with extreme elements like scat and to link to uncensored versions of those images on other sites. I want fluffers who aren't into that stuff to be able to follow this account, and unfortunately FA does not offer any tools at all for them to protect themselves. It's up to me to make sure that they feel safe loading up their feeds.
The biggest incentive I'm offering for fluffers on FA to follow me on other platforms is this:
★ I will be offering discounts to commissioners who commission me elsewhere: I'm still working on the details, but I expect some of my commission prices on other sites other than FA to drop by around $5 an hour. This means that commissioning me and coordinating with me off of FA will be cheaper than commissioning me on FA. This is a deliberate incentive. The other limitations to my gallery are the result of restrictions or a lack of features on FA itself. They're not me being punitive to the platform, they're me trying to use the platform as it exists today. But commission prices are meant to be an incentive. I want you to follow me elsewhere. I want you to try other gallery sites - not just as artists but as users, because if you're a user who's only browsing on FA, you are the reason why artists are here.
And so I want you to get in to the habit of following artists on other platforms other than FA.
The problems i brought up a year ago (https://sfw.furaffinity.net/journal/10569374/) were never resolved and will likely never be fixed. A year later trying to find clarity on how this all played out, I'm finding that there never was any clarity provided. This is not a safe platform for artists to use, and the community would be better served by moving elsewhere. In addition, FA as a gallery site is indefensibly broken. Tag blocking is not a "nice-to-have", it is a fundamentally necessary feature that should disqualify any gallery site from being called a safe or serious platform. You simply can not keep a community safe without a culture of tagging images and a set of tools to use tags to hide content, it is impossible. And so FA is not a safe website for sensitive furs.
And truthfully, FA is not going to improve on any of those points. It is naive to believe otherwise. Things will only ever get better and the community will only ever be safer and more accessible if we go somewhere else.
So while I'm going to do the absolute best I can to make my FA gallery as good as I can, and while I'm going to have an absolute blast interacting with talented artists and sharing art with anypony who wants to see it <3, I'm also not going to be shy, at all, about encouraging fluffers away from this platform. Because it has to happen. Better platforms exist today, and the only thing holding them back is the furry community's willingness to use them.
You can follow me here, I'd love to have you around. But while you're here, please consider taking a step towards a better community as well.
If you'd like to follow me on other platforms as well as on FA, you can find me on:
★ Itaku: https://itaku.ee/profile/foxyoreos
★ Aryion: https://aryion.com/g4/user/foxyoreos
★ Mastodon: https://gulp.cafe/@foxyoreos
★ Inkbunny: https://inkbunny.net/foxyoreos
★ Weasyl: https://www.weasyl.com/~foxyoreos
★ Subscribestar: https://subscribestar.adult/foxyoreos
★ # https://foxyoreos.itch.io/
You can message me on SIgnal (foxyoreos.66) or Matrix (@foxyoreos:bark.lgbt). I maintain a local fork of Postybirb that makes tagging easier (https://codeberg.org/foxyoreos/postybirb-plus-local-changes) if you'd like help mirroring posts to both FA and other galleries. Get in touch if you'd like help with anything <3
