No, heck those trash social medias, i rather follow here. An ACtual gallery. Twitter, and i assume bluesky is the same is so hecking bad trying to follow any artist, no way to actually browse their art

Well, that’s where I operate most. This website is archaic as hell and may be decent for browsing but for actually uploading your work its a pain. I can engage with my community better over there, and bluesky is actually really good.
If you don’t want to follow me there that’s fine.

Be nice if they could add a Gallery Tab, completely independent of Photos and tweets for Artists.
Because its Stupid AF to have to endlessly scroll to find things.

Would make Twitter & Bluesky 1000x more attractive

Yeah it would be nice. I post so often my media tab is pretty much a gallery bar a few things. It’s just where I am most active and my work gets posted there immediately where as I forget about here.

Do you have anything more personal? Like a discord?

No sorry

The FABUI addon for chrome and firefox can help a bit with uploads letting you setup templates and stuff and auto handle the flood protection if that helps at all!

Thanks I’ll have a look!

I don't think it'll help with file sizes, but otherwise it cuts down a ton of time once you get a few templates saved to select and then just drop in the few image specific details

So FA is dogshit to post to but you'll still post to the Nazi-run website? The one with the massive bot problem? The one where your art can, will and likely has been run through gen-AI slop machines at the press of a button?

Sure, okay.

Wow, you’re very nice indeed.
I have to use these websites out of necessity, art is my job, and I set up my business and client base there before Musk took over. Not that I should have to explain myself. Don’t leave prickish comments on my page, you’re welcome to leave if you don’t like the fact I use X like most fandom artists do to get business.

That's the fun part! YOU LITERALLY DON'T HAVE TO!

People move websites, people see shit going down, see changes coming that can cause problems and they pick up and LEEEEAAAAAVE. I shitcanned my THREE Twitter accounts (that I'd used for literally years and ended up deleting a total of over a hundred THOUSAND posts) when Emerald Boy's changes started getting worse and worse and I've had MORE engagement (Actual, proper TRUE engagement and not bots!) on BlueSky than I *EVER* had on the birdsite and I'm not even an artist! I don't post art, I just talk about shit, post bullshit and memes, prod my friends, take VRC photos and game screenshots and post them there and I'm finding more people who actually give a crap about the stuff I post from NOT getting assaulted by botposting every five fucking seconds. Holy FRICK, the amount of spam DMs I used to get on Twitter was abhorrent and caused me to turn the fucking things off.

Are you seriously, truly, GENUINELY telling me that you'd rather have "haha funny Number-Go-Up" than just *stop* posting on a site run by actual, literal fucking NAZIS for crying out loud? If people cared (and I mean actually, TRULY) cared about your art, they'd make the change easy as wink. If not, then you really, *really* don't need them as much as you think you do.

Okay, first of all, stop shouting.

Incase you have missed it, I post on bluesky, it’s my main actually, I made my account as soon as shit went down on twitter, and most my business comes from there, BUT, I still get work on twitter, I still have an audience, I do not have enough traction or growth to switch over entirely, I have been working on it since bluesky was born, so no, it’s not that easy, and I can tell that you don’t do solely art for a living because you don’t realise this.
Any good business person would know you don’t put all your eggs in one basket. And as I said, most of the fandom’s working artists are still there, that doesn’t make them nazi’s, it’s survival.
And you are screaming at me from a comments section on a site that allowed the most disgusting of uploads for far too long and has had a raging problem with child and animal predators. But go off, maybe while you are virtue signalling hardcore right now, you might want to chop the FA too. You need to calm down, this is an invitation for those that want to keep up with me on the platform of their choice, get over yourself.

I apologise for the shouting.

Alright, accepted.
Just remember there’s nuance to everything, I can’t help that there’s no one wonderful place to post, and they all having glaring problems, I’m only trying to make my bills and get by and want to expand my community where I can.

You are correct and I apologise again. Things are far more complex than they should be and my taking it out on you is... Beyond wrong. For that, I also apologise.

I appreciate that, thank you

You are welcome.

Btw, FA has a pretty dirty history of controversy itself, so…

Y'know, the FA+ subscription lets you upload hi-res files up to 4K. But if you don't want to do that, that's fine.

Ah wasn’t aware of that, but I don’t want to pay another subscription, and it’s kinda weird paywalling better upload sizes on an art site.

Nah, those sites annihilate the quality of uploads. They also both use your art to train their image rec AIs. Use Itaku instead, if you don't like furaffinity. It's an actual art gallery site, unlike those places, and it's new and fresh unlike FA.

You don’t have to comment if you don’t want to follow me. This is an invitation for those that do want to follow me.
I use them because they’re excellent for finding clients and community. My uploads don’t get killed as much as they do here. I’m not looking for suggestions for yet more places to join, but I’ll have a look.
Btw everywhere on the internet is going to use your work for AI training.

Also, this is my job, these places are my audience, I can’t just decide not to use them.

I'm still annoyed Tumblr decided to go stupid

You might wanna provide a link to the Bluesky account lol.