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My content in FA, I'm still active or not?
2 weeks ago
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Hello everyone.
Many of you may know that I stoped posting a lot of my art here, mostly because of the aggresive and arbitrary rules forced upon the users.
I haven't been around that much to know if anything have changed since then but you probably have noticed I post a few things every now and then.
All my stuff is posted mainly in my Inkbunny: https://inkbunny.net/Quetzalli
Or in my X/twitter: https://x.com/DMQuetz_Art
As if I'll post again all my art here, I don't know. My art style usually focuses on semi anthro, cute or small characters, and that means if a mod decides that's a cub for whatever reason, then my account will get banned.
However, I'm also aware a lot of my followers don't have an IB account or don't use twitter so every now and then I post something here.
Long story short, I'll keep posting stuff here but kind of a minimum, mostly to let my followers know I'm still active. And the stuff I'll post will most likely be things that I consider important, either a commissioner wants exposition, a YCH, or things like that. But I repeat, if you want to see all my posts, Inkbunny is the best choice.
Thank you for your constant support.
(And if someone knows if the rules have soften, do let me know too).
Many of you may know that I stoped posting a lot of my art here, mostly because of the aggresive and arbitrary rules forced upon the users.
I haven't been around that much to know if anything have changed since then but you probably have noticed I post a few things every now and then.
All my stuff is posted mainly in my Inkbunny: https://inkbunny.net/Quetzalli
Or in my X/twitter: https://x.com/DMQuetz_Art
As if I'll post again all my art here, I don't know. My art style usually focuses on semi anthro, cute or small characters, and that means if a mod decides that's a cub for whatever reason, then my account will get banned.
However, I'm also aware a lot of my followers don't have an IB account or don't use twitter so every now and then I post something here.
Long story short, I'll keep posting stuff here but kind of a minimum, mostly to let my followers know I'm still active. And the stuff I'll post will most likely be things that I consider important, either a commissioner wants exposition, a YCH, or things like that. But I repeat, if you want to see all my posts, Inkbunny is the best choice.
Thank you for your constant support.
(And if someone knows if the rules have soften, do let me know too).
And to be honest, I'll take that and support here before I have anything to do with that musk rat on Twitter again. You're rather brave letting your art feed their AI.
Edit: And before anyone says anything about that myth of a checkbox... you actually think that checkbook does anything? You think it stops them? Their own ToS make no mention of opting in or opting out, or even allude to it. They can delete that checkbook without notice, and still be in full compliance of their own ToS without changing a single word.
It is my understanding, as has been mentioned, that they have let up a lot on the subjective rules and overenforcement. There was actually a town hall where they explicitly stated they were walking back the ridiculous rules around how things like on model pikachu and eevee would be treated as cub. To me at least, this is a big deal. I do think it's kinda annoying that they used a pinned, site-wide announcement to ban such things, but the announcement of the rollback was a passing mention in an hours long town hall. But, at least they acknowledged it and seem to be somewhat engaging with the community these days.
This next bit is entirely my interpretation, and is probably in bad taste, but I personally believe a lot of the problems FA faced were a result of Neer's leadership. I don't think there was anything malicious there, but the site definitely suffered from long term stagnation and decline. In the last year or two we've seen more improvements to the site (name changes/aliases, blacklisting, improved tagging) than we saw in probably two decades of Neer's ownership. The days of a handful of people with influence being able to unilaterally make policy decisions that come in the form of subjective rules that are unevenly enforced seems to be a thing of the past.
While I do still think FA is still objectively the worst site in the fandom, I struggle to find negative things to criticize the new leadership for. They do seem to be working to address the deficiencies, but two decades of neglect and erosion of goodwill takes a while to come back from. I will say, at least with the current trajectory they're on, I think the long term outlook for this place is actually fairly positive.