As an artist? You're much better with X, as you can get more followers there, like anyone stumbling on your work basically.

Bluesky, from what I have seen, seems to be more of an echo chamber. So, good for people who want to follow you there. Believe me, I've tried posting on Bluesky before and no one seems to see me.

So I'd say X is probably your best bet.

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I personally don’t use either, as I just don’t like social media sites. The only thing I can tell you is that, at least in the United States, due to Elon Musk owning Twitter and all of the politics around that - a lot of people have abandoned that website in favor of Bluesky. I can’t speak for other countries, but it’s become a decisive topic in a lot of circles, over here.

I gave up on twitter/x late last year. It was like yelling into a void of nothing but hell. I found my sanity got a lot better when posting on bluesky.

I love Bluesky. I can't handle Twitter knowing who owns it and pushes their views on it and into their lame AI. Just the other day it was praising Hitler.

This may be anecdotal evidence, but I and most of my friends (artist and non-artist alike) have found that Bluesky has much higher quality engagement per watcher than Twitter(X) does. It also is much better at showing watchers exactly what they follow for instead of filtering and hiding accounts at random.

Twitter does have a better algorithm that can funnel people to your page, but you'll also never really know what % of your views are useless bots and image scraping tools. Additionally, just using Twitter(X) is exhausting, and the constant pestering from bots, advertisements, and bad actors can add unneeded stress to handling the social media side of work.

Some folks have had success with using tools like postybirb to just post directly to Twitter(X) to avoid directly using the site while making sure to link back to FA/Bsky with every post. The direct link to a different website will make Twitter less likely to share your posts, but it will also catch people and bring them to your more active sites.

Sorry for the whole wall of text! But I hope this helps you~

I use tweeter more, but only because I know more people on hat. I also have a bluesky

Bluesky is better. Key thing about it is that you need to interact back with others in order to grow. The lack of algorithm is pretty apparent if you just post but you don't interact back. You may not have the same amount of followers but the quality is better since more people actually see and interact (especially hitting the repost button).

A while back I was trying to grow an art social both on Twitter and Bluesky at about the same time. And though Twitter obvs had a head start, Bluesky eventually overtook my Twitter in terms of followers (though granted I've had to put my art socials on the back burner because irl stuff happening). And when codes were still a thing but then started to pile on, I made my personal on Bluesky. Wasn't even trying to grow but people kept following me on that one to where it overtook my art socials lol, all because I interact with folks (mostly reposts, likes, and comments, I barely post)

A thing that helps is to fill the account with old artwork and repost your own stuff often! Links aren't suppressed, you can say Ko-Fi or Patreon freely without getting your posts shadowbanned. You can post your commission links. No need to be funky with it by putting in symbols or numers.

There are furry specific feeds you can get on to help get discovered (FurryList is the biggest, just follow the account), use tags to get on other more specific feeds. I don't really use other feeds, I'm only on my following but I still discover plenty of new folks through reposts and in my posts appearing in feeds if I use certain keywords and if I did steps to appear in a certain feed (ie; following Furrylist to show up in their feeds).

As far as 18+ Bluesky allows it as long as you label it properly. There is a strong culture of labeling things to both help in filtering out and for discovery as well. Bluesky automod can be a pain for this since I've seen artistic nudity be slapped with sexual content label but they can be appealed at least (I even saw concept art of sandals be hit with an adult content label lol). You could theoretically host both SFW and NSFW on your profile with how the filters work but a few do opt for separate accounts for their own reasons.

And a nice thing about Bluesky is that early on there was very good effort to foster the culture of curating your own experience. No dunking, no complaining about what people like or make. Don't like it? Just mute or block and move on. And nowadays it persists pretty well though there have been some inklings of old Twitter culture seeping in after codes went away and after each Twitter migration wave.

As for Twitter, I check on it and it becomes more and more of a ghost town as time goes on, especially after each controversy. Even if you have more followers on it, interactions are happening less and less and if they do, its a bot or the rare person that is clinging onto dear life.

I do have other tips but they center more around getting yourself (and maybe twitter followers) to use Twitter less and more of Bluesky instead but that's not relevant here.

It was quite a lot but I hope this helps!

The more people able to see art, the better.

So.. both ? Means more people interacting with your art.

I'd say try both and see which one you like best for yourself! :)

Bluesky definitely, you'll find a lot of people who used to use Twitter have ditched it and moved there!