Recently I've been trying to expand the reach of my art. Xitter and anything owned by Meta are no longer options, with their involuntary AI scrapers and Fascist-friendly policies, so I've been looking for decent alternatives besides my usual go-to's of FurAffinity, DeviantArt, Mastodon, and BlueSky. Just some thoughts on how things are looking so far, to organize my own thoughts on them as much as anything.

RIP SOFURRY?

SoFurry had been one of my favorite art (& writing) sites since forever. I had been posting there since 2004 or so back when it was Yiffstar. They went offline back in July over what I guess were skyrocketing server costs. They are working on an updated alternative site and they do post regular updates on BlueSky (the last was 3 days ago as of this writing) but that site's actually been in the works for over a year now. While they do seem sincere in eventually getting the site back up, and I really hope they succeed, I'm not sure how confident I am that it will happen any time real soon, especially if they still have financial problems. Still, best of luck to them.

PIXIV

I stopped posting regularly on Pixiv for a while last year because they suddenly switched from a more relaxed minimal-censored site to much more restrictive posting policies. I think it was partly so they could monetize stuff through the associated subscriber service Fanbox, and partly because of the BS censorship drama that was going on in Japan, where the site is based. I could be wrong; I admit I wasn't following stuff on that site too closely, so it could be something else entirely.

Anyway, I started posting regularly there again. Certain stuff still has to be censored in a certain way (if you've ever seen hentai online I'm sure you know what I'm talking about) but it doesn't seem as bad with the draconian restrictions as it was for a while.

NEWGROUNDS

Ugh. My opinion on NG has really soured. Its interface is outdated and clunky, and its now been TWO YEARS since I've been 'De-Scouted' during some random site update, meaning my artwork there has only limited visibility. It's essentially like being shadow-banned on Xitter. And this was the SECOND time this happened. I really don't think it's worth uploading art there anymore and do so mostly because I still have about 200+ followers there and figure that at least they will be able to eventually view the art.

WEASYL

I plumb forgot I had a Weasyl account lol. The last time I posted there until recently was 2017. I also forgot why I stopped using it. I think I was concentrating much more on writing than art at the time and could only post so many places, and it was new with a limited reach at the time, so it was one of the places that I let go. I figured I'd get back to it sometime, and that time was eight years later apparently. I just started, like right before I wrote this, posting art there again and we'll see how it goes.

INKBUNNY

I think I stopped using Inkbunny for a long while for much the same reason I stopped using Weasyl. I have been posting there again though for a number of months now. It does have an awkward uploading system, and I do wish they'd allow non-furry adult material, but it's a decent site for what it is.

SUBSCRIBESTAR and DEVIANTART ADULT TIER

Using these adult art subscription services as a replacement for my old Patreon Page. Patreon got pretty stupid about censorship and ID requirements for a while (or maybe they're still that way, IDK, I haven't checked in on them in a long while.) My DeviantArt Adult Content Tier has been going pretty steadily for over a year, with a small but steady core of subscribers. I'm two weeks or so into my Subscribestar Page. I only have two subscribers there and and am still uploading my catalog of adult material, but I'm hoping to grow that more in the weeks and months to come.

CARA

Cara is a great portfolio site and I'm very happy with both it and its anti-AI policies. I post there whenever I have decent non-adult art to show off.

INKBLOT and HENTAI FOUNDRY

I like both sites, and they seem to have small but very dedicated user bases. Unfortunately they also seem to have fairly clunky uploading systems and interfaces so I don't post to them that much, though I will still put up batches on HF when I think of it.

REDDIT

I have tried to post artwork on Reddit, but it always seems to be drowned into obscurity by the sheer volume of other submissions on the site. I do post erotica book excerpts there with some success, but posting art there doesn't seem to be worth it in my experience.

TUMBLR

Has a bad rep and requires photo ID to register. No thanks. Having my ID stolen online once was one time too many, and I do not trust any social media site, or any third party service it hires, to actually handle sensitive info like that securely.

Well, that's about. As always, I'd love to hear what any of you think of all this, or if you have suggestions about other sites where I could post my mad little scribblings.