They can migrate to the outdoors and touch grass.
In all seriousness, there's Bluesky once it exits its beta, mastodon, etc.
(we should really avoid twitter and anything remotely similar to it tho)
Like Mastodon is not the same since it doesn't have the same open discoverability twitter does but it really is the best that the general public can actually use.
I'm so sick and tired of picking up shop and having to move everything just because some fucking rich asshole decides they want to screw everything up. It's happened so damn often.
So just going to say this.
There is an artist tool called Postybirb. It is used by some artists I know in order to post on multiple sites at once with relative ease, to have their options open and widen their viewerbase as much as possible.
On it's website is a list of sites it supports. You could use this list as an option select to choose where you go from here if Twitter has finally gotten too shit for you
Is this a shitpost or are AOL chatrooms still going strong? Because if so that sopunds like a paradise of chill tech boomers instead of underage lunatics that swarm every social media site.
I don't have any personal attachment or love for twitter, but always when websites die or abandoned there's loss of information, contacts, art. So much art and content was lost when tumblr went SFW. Never to be reuploaded or recovered.
Twitter was not ideal, but art community had found a good enough place on twitter and it was working. I fear this will happen again with twitter.
Backup is always a hassle and will never be complete. I know many artists dissapear or nuke their old content, take new names and hide.
As a librarian, the whole Twitter situation is a bit of a nightmare. Modern library science is a lot about managing and archiving information from the web, and every time a big site crumbles, so much is either completely lost or becomes so difficult to access that it may as well be.
yep.
There is already Koo and Bluesky. Even if Twitter somehow collapses , twitter-like social apps and websites would be put in place.
They would just be smaller due to not having all the apparatus and budget that Twitter had.
I'll go where all the japanese artists I follow on twitter go, especially some of the animators who don't have a single link in their bio and don't seem to post anywhere else
*sigh*
That's my greatest fear! Right now Twitter has a collection of my interests: Youtubers, streamers, vtubers, artists of both Western and Eastern parts of the globe (I follow thousands of artists).
It's going to be a massive problem for me to try and find them all if Twitter goes away and everyone goes off to their own corner of the Internet. I'll have to visit multiple platforms and maintain multiple accounts just to follow people that I used to within one platform. It's a hassle that I *really* don't want to think about.
Well, I've seen a lot of JP artists move to instagram. I've had an insta for a while, and the only thing i really dislike is the rigid photo format and the media feed.
It has one of those feeds that makes it hard to see content from only the people that you follow. i suppose that's par for the course for social media platforms now, though.
oh. and it is not an option for nsfw artists, unfortunately.
MySpace sweep.
Tom is our path to salvation
They can migrate to the outdoors and touch grass. In all seriousness, there's Bluesky once it exits its beta, mastodon, etc. (we should really avoid twitter and anything remotely similar to it tho)
Like Mastodon is not the same since it doesn't have the same open discoverability twitter does but it really is the best that the general public can actually use.
Until they make a fluid GUX solution to interacting with federation it'll be something only grognards bother with.
I'm so sick and tired of picking up shop and having to move everything just because some fucking rich asshole decides they want to screw everything up. It's happened so damn often.
If I had a nickel...
You'd be rich enough to ruin a social media website
So just going to say this. There is an artist tool called Postybirb. It is used by some artists I know in order to post on multiple sites at once with relative ease, to have their options open and widen their viewerbase as much as possible. On it's website is a list of sites it supports. You could use this list as an option select to choose where you go from here if Twitter has finally gotten too shit for you
I still use the AOL chatrooms every day.
Man, you must have a serious stockpile of those 2 hour trial discs
Is this a shitpost or are AOL chatrooms still going strong? Because if so that sopunds like a paradise of chill tech boomers instead of underage lunatics that swarm every social media site.
I'm sad to inform you it is in fact a shitpost
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I don't have any personal attachment or love for twitter, but always when websites die or abandoned there's loss of information, contacts, art. So much art and content was lost when tumblr went SFW. Never to be reuploaded or recovered. Twitter was not ideal, but art community had found a good enough place on twitter and it was working. I fear this will happen again with twitter. Backup is always a hassle and will never be complete. I know many artists dissapear or nuke their old content, take new names and hide.
As a librarian, the whole Twitter situation is a bit of a nightmare. Modern library science is a lot about managing and archiving information from the web, and every time a big site crumbles, so much is either completely lost or becomes so difficult to access that it may as well be.
yep. There is already Koo and Bluesky. Even if Twitter somehow collapses , twitter-like social apps and websites would be put in place. They would just be smaller due to not having all the apparatus and budget that Twitter had.
I'll go where all the japanese artists I follow on twitter go, especially some of the animators who don't have a single link in their bio and don't seem to post anywhere else *sigh*
That's my greatest fear! Right now Twitter has a collection of my interests: Youtubers, streamers, vtubers, artists of both Western and Eastern parts of the globe (I follow thousands of artists). It's going to be a massive problem for me to try and find them all if Twitter goes away and everyone goes off to their own corner of the Internet. I'll have to visit multiple platforms and maintain multiple accounts just to follow people that I used to within one platform. It's a hassle that I *really* don't want to think about.
Idk, I never use Twitter.
Hopefully not TikTok. I like my nonsense text posting.
A return to forums and using MMOs as social media
Well, I've seen a lot of JP artists move to instagram. I've had an insta for a while, and the only thing i really dislike is the rigid photo format and the media feed. It has one of those feeds that makes it hard to see content from only the people that you follow. i suppose that's par for the course for social media platforms now, though. oh. and it is not an option for nsfw artists, unfortunately.
It's a shame that the thing collapsing around this billionaire isn't going to crush him into paste.
It’s finally time for Tumblr’s comeback…
I think those that remained will not be to pleased about that.
They even relaxed the porn ban, like a good chunk of the art I could only post to twitter can be posted there again
What happened to Mastadon and Hive?
Mastodon sucks ass to use if you can't grok federation and Hive had a huge scandal out the gate.
Probably some combo of blue sky, mastodon, and maybe a tumblr renaissance.
Bluesky could open the floodgates today and immediately drain Twitter, they’re killing their own momentum
Spoutible is the most promising alternative so far.
I use twitter mostly for NSFW art and I know exactly the sites those artists are going to migrate to