Weasyl, Inkbunny, SoFurry, e621, etc.?

I mean, FurAffinity is still the most established and largest, most popular.. even with artists using other platforms like X, BlueSky, DA, Patreon, KoFi, etc.

Hmmm noted for sure!

FA still feels like the dominant furry-specific site. Bluesky has a decent amount these days, and now that Sofurry is back, it may start seeing more traffic.

For me, FA is still my primary place, with occasionally looking at Bluesky. I post to FA, sofurry, inkbunny, mastodon, itaku, and Bluesky when it works.

Oh wow, I havent heard Mastadon's name in a while. I wonder if I should consider Inkbunny as another posting ground. I left on something of a Sour note but I believe in terms of raw views it still is a #2 not counting stuff like X of course.

FA is still currently the place for good furry artwork, despite its best efforts. Inkbunny is a distant #2.

Some people are saying SoFurry but it has been been back for months now and is still seeing sub-Weasyl numbers. Not holding my breath there.

"But what about e6?" I hear some future commenter ask, to which I say "What about e6?"

Inkbunny hangs in there despite the controversies hah

Yeah I feel like E621 has been trying more for wanting artists to post on it, but I still think it can't escape its "Just go there to jerk it and leave" status.

The "controversy" is why Inkbunnycontinues to survive, because that sets it apart from FA. Everything else just has "not FA" going for it.

e6 has a "community" of a sort, but it is full of people who couldn't figure out basic comment etiquette and so admins gave up trying to enforce it. Not a pleasant place to be.

This'd be why I don't post on E6.

Some of my work posted there by others (I don't really mind as long as it isn't edited or unsourced) gained some amazingly reductive comments criticizing the choice of pronouns I used or something else sociopolitical and superficial they specifically took offense with (which I did mind). The community of E6 is a lot more raucous and less interested in being an inviting community, more interested in backbiting, tag wars, and jerkin' it to what pleases 'em in a crowd, to my experience. My only use for it is as an archive if some fur's art vanishes from elsewhere, or is only found on Xhitter, BlueSky, or a Discord or TG server.

I'd upload to E6 more, but the tagging is what slows me down. This is also an issue with SoFurry. These days I just let other people upload my art to E6, but it's usually only very specific NSFW art that gets uploaded there.
Currently I mostly just post to FA, DA, Twitter, Bluesky, and Discord. I used to do the others but SoFurry would slow me down due to the very small space for adding tags and that commas had to be included and added manually. However, InkBunny would add commas automatically. I tried PostyBirb, but the similar issues with tagging slowed me down too much.
So ideally to maximize the best use of all the sites due to the frustrating tagging systems and copying+pasting the tags, it goes FA>IB>SF and then DA's 30 tag limit. However, despite all of that I've only ever received commissions from specifically FA and occasionally Discord. For whatever reason my art just does not click for people on the others.

The rise of social media kind of made Twitter, telegram and discord the primary places for art.

Its much easier to curate your own page and visibility on these platforms than it is on FA or DA or any of the other art sites unfortunately.

FA is still the primary for furry art, but its fallen pretty far from the throne in terms of use and popularity in comparison to twitter.

with the rise of twitter over the last decade i feel like FA has lost a lot of its traffic. as time's gone by, i see myself post there in a more active way than FA, and i can do some more throwaway posts like shitposts and stuff without caring too much. sometimes you also hit the algorithm lottery and your post goes crazy and you get likes, retweets and followers up the ass. BUT while twitter is way more popular, it just doesn't *work* as a proper art gallery.

i see e621 more like a gateway site for my actual twitter and FA pages because of the huge traffic too

FA is probably always gonna be THE site anyway and always good to have as a backup because it's am actual art gallery (as fucking mind numbing the uploading experience is)

inkbunny is probably a close second but i can understand why some people would steer away from it. i'd make an inkbunny but i'm already too lazy to upload stuff to FA in a timely manner, so having yet another place is out of the question for me lmao

finally, imho the other sites (weasyl, sofurry, itaku, etc) are copium

FA is still the main to go site for furries in general.
6e helps to archive and get traction of ppl interested in your furry stuff. Pokemon are still pretty popular there.
I dunno about IB, I avoid it for many reasons.
Itaku works amazing, but it seems like a leftover site where people posts only thanks to Postybirb.

Then you have social media like Twitter, not good as a gallery but if you train the algo by posting the same character/topic it can help you to get traction and send potential clients to your business contact.

If itaku just had better promoting it could rise up to rival the second position for popularity, but it remains a kind of side thing.

Mastodon/fediverse I feel is the last safehaven for social media platforms for furries to go to, but it is not a gallery site by any means. It does however have healthy artist communities and a reasonable amount of commission work going around and being offered.

As for pokemon... Nintendo keeps shooting themselves in the knee with the decreasing quality of the pokemon games they put out and restricting their platforms to solely the Switch and Switch 2, plus daring to do major reveal promos where they advertise day one dlc which... Yeah lets just say they keep pissing in the fans' cereals but a majority don't care and so they're still huge and will not improve.

I feel like all the furries are hidden within chat rooms in Discord and Telegram.

How do we dredge them out?.....Garlic bread?

I mostly use FA still, and IB sometimes, e6 rarely. As for social media, mostly just Mastodon! I do have Xitter and Bsky but I don't post to them much, the former never.

Honestly I am surprised with how often I get new watchers here, I think proper keywords/tags helps a ton

I don't care much for pokemon personally, but you do you~! (I'd like to see some more Digimon or even less commonly seen: Palworld characters!)

e621 is my main site, then IB, then FA.

e621 isn't really for interacting with a community but I mostly just care about uploading/searching for art.