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Posted a year agoThe last journal I wrote regarding posting art online during the social media age aged like fine milk, because just a few days later the FA hijack happened. Oops! It seems like it's not smart in the long run to put all your eggs into a single basket.
Then I explored alternate options and considered Cohost for a moment. Well! I guess that's not gonna happen as well.
To diversify a little in case even worse things happen to FA, I gave Bluesky a shot and can be found under https://bsky.app/profile/sunkenshrines.bsky.social.
Bluesky is currently in a surprisingly decent state, so it's the most straightforward option for now to branch out given I just don't want to use Twitter anymore.
I will reiterate as well that I have a Telegram channel (now with comments enabled too!) that contains sketch and WIP material that is currently not posted on here: https://t.me/sunkenshrines_art
Then I explored alternate options and considered Cohost for a moment. Well! I guess that's not gonna happen as well.
To diversify a little in case even worse things happen to FA, I gave Bluesky a shot and can be found under https://bsky.app/profile/sunkenshrines.bsky.social.
Bluesky is currently in a surprisingly decent state, so it's the most straightforward option for now to branch out given I just don't want to use Twitter anymore.
I will reiterate as well that I have a Telegram channel (now with comments enabled too!) that contains sketch and WIP material that is currently not posted on here: https://t.me/sunkenshrines_art
The experience of posting art on the internet, or "RIP"
Posted a year agoUsually I don't write journals anymore because I value my privacy and just post art When It's Done ™ these days.
But I needed to chew on some thoughts due to recent events and just have to put them out there, just for some semblance of authenticity I guess. Oh well!
I owe long-lasting friendships and acquiring strong personal passions to FA's existence. Had I not been able to share my art on this clunky, sort of outdated site made for artists, I'd not have the sort-of-weird and fun life I live now.
FA's a weird, a bizarre corner of the internet and an antiquated relic of bygone times. I appreciate it deeply for that; ultimately it does what it does for all its flaws and issues. It's dated as hell, but that makes it so refreshing in contrast to how posting art on the internet feels elsewhere as of now.
I tire of the number games being played on social media, the algorithms keeping me from seeing the art I want to see, all in the interest of driving "engagement". I don't want to "sell" myself to get any attention or followers; that's the big reason I quit posting on Twitter a while ago. This doesn't even get into some things wildly out of everyone's direct control:
- Payment processors as well as big tech companies keep getting a stronger say than ever before on what content can be posted on some sites (hello, Patreon, and Tumblr's 2018 banhammer also counts).
- Techbros grift for venture capital after the entire world neither pivoted to crypto, web3 nor the metaverse. Trillions of dollars were dumped into colossal server farms that now flood entire sites and professions with genAI slop to the point of being unusable (hello, Pinterest, and many other sites).
- The upper echelons of Twitter are simply much more interested in generally being and pandering to outwardly repulsive individuals these days, instead of doing anything constructive about their site.
Clearly, it's a fun time to share art on the internet! The gardens are either destroyed, neglected or abandoned.
There's a genuine fear I have that the "classic" experience of posting art online on FA will vanish, now that Dragoneer has passed. I didn't know him personally but it's a shame how he died. No one should have to go through what he went through in his last hours.
Where else do you even go these days to get the same experience, onto an openly accessible website that was built to bring together a community and actually achieved that? All we have is ourselves and the bonds we have forged.
There are no clear answers to all of this rambling but in any case: RIP Dragoneer, thank you for making the internet a bit of a brighter place for many people.
But I needed to chew on some thoughts due to recent events and just have to put them out there, just for some semblance of authenticity I guess. Oh well!
I owe long-lasting friendships and acquiring strong personal passions to FA's existence. Had I not been able to share my art on this clunky, sort of outdated site made for artists, I'd not have the sort-of-weird and fun life I live now.
FA's a weird, a bizarre corner of the internet and an antiquated relic of bygone times. I appreciate it deeply for that; ultimately it does what it does for all its flaws and issues. It's dated as hell, but that makes it so refreshing in contrast to how posting art on the internet feels elsewhere as of now.
I tire of the number games being played on social media, the algorithms keeping me from seeing the art I want to see, all in the interest of driving "engagement". I don't want to "sell" myself to get any attention or followers; that's the big reason I quit posting on Twitter a while ago. This doesn't even get into some things wildly out of everyone's direct control:
- Payment processors as well as big tech companies keep getting a stronger say than ever before on what content can be posted on some sites (hello, Patreon, and Tumblr's 2018 banhammer also counts).
- Techbros grift for venture capital after the entire world neither pivoted to crypto, web3 nor the metaverse. Trillions of dollars were dumped into colossal server farms that now flood entire sites and professions with genAI slop to the point of being unusable (hello, Pinterest, and many other sites).
- The upper echelons of Twitter are simply much more interested in generally being and pandering to outwardly repulsive individuals these days, instead of doing anything constructive about their site.
Clearly, it's a fun time to share art on the internet! The gardens are either destroyed, neglected or abandoned.
There's a genuine fear I have that the "classic" experience of posting art online on FA will vanish, now that Dragoneer has passed. I didn't know him personally but it's a shame how he died. No one should have to go through what he went through in his last hours.
Where else do you even go these days to get the same experience, onto an openly accessible website that was built to bring together a community and actually achieved that? All we have is ourselves and the bonds we have forged.
There are no clear answers to all of this rambling but in any case: RIP Dragoneer, thank you for making the internet a bit of a brighter place for many people.
