Okay, sooo with the dumpster fire going on...any other place to share art?

[daeygur]

Twitter is crashing.
Instagram doesn't promote my art anymore unless it's reals.
TikTok isn't ideal because I don't make reels or animation.
Facebook: Well...do I need to explain?
Deviant Art: Just crapped themselves and disrespected every single creator with the AI bs.
Tumblr: I could never figure out how to use it.

Is there any other platform to share art or are we all royally screwed?

[Kelheor]

My favorite platform lol.
Sorry, I wish I could say something like Pillowfort is great for it right now, but I honestly don't know.

[daeygur]

at this point it's safer
I never heard of Pillowfort!

[BlairFujin]

pixiv? pillowfort, out of newer ones - inkblot, cohost, itaku
maybe furaffinity if you don't mind furries

[daeygur]

Amazing! Thank you! I tried Pixiv before but didn't really care for it but thank you!!!

[Kelheor]

Ah, yes @Llyrel was giving out invites to Pillowfort here, so I instantly thought about it

Pillowfort invites can be found here! Just let me know which one(s) you picked so I can remove them from the list []

[BlairFujin]

Now you don't even need an invite (or donate to get in without one), they've recently added a registration waitlist https://www.pillowfort.social/waitlist to allow more twitter refugees in but also not overload the website

[powerplantanimations]

I'm only pissed about Twitter because I had a plan going on and now I have to throw that one away. I'm still wondering if TikTok is gonna get banned.

Also Tumblr is pretty difficult to use yeah lmao. I think I wanna come back to that should I learn how to program or somethin'.

[Kelheor]

You know you can download themes for Tumblr, right

[powerplantanimations]

I guess I'll look up guides and playthroughs.

[Legendofgenii]

I’ll have to go outside and promote in person.

“Excuse me sir, do you have time to talk about Lord Aatma? Hey! Don’t run from the Lord!”

@powerplantanimations Yeah, I agree about Tumblr. It’s kinda clunky.

[daeygur]

Posting flyers throughout grocery stores XDDD

[daeygur]

Yeah! I just signed up for the waitlist!

[VibrantFox]

Tumblr, Artfol and Inkblot are the only sites I'm using so far but I'm about to poke my head onto neocities once i've got some proper downtime from work

I don't think tumblr is too difficult to get the hang of especially since there's a fair amount of guides from theme creators as well as other folks with regards to themes, page customization and other things. As for posts themselves everything is pretty straightforward and there's been a good number of posts that I've seen from longtime users giving bullet point basics on how to navigate the site and use it's available features (this ones a recent fave)

Inkblot is still in beta and still growing so the staff they've got is doing what they can to accommodate folks with their available funding but at the least they've got a hard no AI/NFT/crypto rule so that's a genuine comfort to know they're doing all they can to keep that crap out (plus no bigots since it's lgbtqia+ and poc run)

and Artfol has been around long enough that it's built a strong community and decently sized user base where the only downside (depending on personal preferences) is that it's currently mobile only BUT they are currently in beta for a desktop site so prisma users are testing that out right now.

[daeygur]

I'm going to check out Inkblot! It looks nice

[thepenmonster1]

it's currently mobile only BUT they are currently in beta for a desktop site

Good news. Smartphones are junk for most uses. Seeing and sharing art being the prime example. "Lovely postage stamp you have there. I think."

[daeygur]

Agreed! I like being able to upload my work from my computer without having to go to google drive, uploading it, then downloading it, then uploading it to a mobile app Call me old fashioned or lazy, but it's a lot easier lololol.

[TheLemmaLlama]

Reddit? Less of a social media kind of deal where you have all your art in one place on your profile which people follow, but it seems good for getting noticed if you read the room and post in the right places, and there's a good non-artist userbase so you don't run into the problem of everyone being an artist and promoting at each other :]

[daeygur]

Yeah! I'll also be using that as well since I'm on there literally every day lolol. I might also stick with Instagram for a bit and try to find figure it out.

[VibrantFox]

literally the mobile exclusive thing was the only reason i mostly laid off of artfol even tho it did/does allow for you to open up images to fuller resolutions and zoom in for details so definitely a plus but the addition of a desktop site will absolutely get me back to actively posting there coz i love the community over there

Reddit?

i've got a laundry list of reasons why i refuse to touch that site but good for anyone whose having an okay time over there