Y'all Abandoning Twitter?

[TheLemmaLlama]

the migration would have to be collectively decided on for people to actually leave Twitter.

Yeah, reading through here and seeing people go 'I'll see where my favourite artists go' makes me wonder if everyone else is thinking the same thing and waiting to see where everyone else would go so everyone waits for everyone else and everyone would just end up staying put :'D

[thepenmonster1]

I got rid and abandon so many Social media accounts in the past.

I've yet to find one that didn't demand you treat it as a second job. And since that second job is bringing in user data for tech companies to hand out to advertisers and governments I greatly despise the whole thing.

The real angering thing is that as far as most of the planet is concerned social media is the internet and doesn't care about the negatives. So you're stuck with it if you want any hope of finding anyone to see and appreciate your work.

If anyone wants any Pillowfort invites, btw, just let me know!

Sure, I'll take your charity.

[RedLenai]

I honestly don't know what the big issue is since it doesn't say that you'll be automatically doomed if you don't pay money, just that your chances will be slightly, better? According to a bunch of people with verified accounts? As if unverified people don't have others following them or those who personally check their walls?

Maybe is because I'm the type of having several accounts as once and instead of managing them like their own individual thing, I just feel satisfied with the summed up numbers or maybe it is that I give each platform a different use. I personally rather cover more ground and just call it a day

• Facebook is mostly my spamming place, several groups I'm in and where I self promote whenever I make new artwork, a new update of the series I work for and so on. I've got my account blocked some time ago, and after filling my data and stuff I don't get reported anymore for "suspicious activity" or similar.
• Twitter is good for when I want to know a tiny bit of gossips, engage with the vtuber community, seek commissions or simply shitpost silly doodles.
• Tumblr is not that good for original content for me, but boy I'm an unhinged rotten fangirl there, it does better when you do fan content.
• Instagram ain't bad so far, managed to prevent bots from annoying me in my own posts and while people don't comment I can see my stuff is seen most of the time.
• Discord Servers are mostly dead but still, another place to throw work in process, engage a bit, share updates of webcomics or commissions.
• This forum and the Faneo one (Spanish platform for webcomics), kinda similar to Discord Servers.
• From time to time I oupload videos to TikTok, personally I don't care much about it and just post whenever I feel like it.
• Twitch and Youtube are mostly used for recording in real time my drawing process, which kind of works as promotion meanwhile I could somehow offer engagement via communication through the chat. It'll do better with a mic but that kind of drives me off.
• I think I may go back and try to reactivate my FurAffinity account, after all, it is not exclusive to furry content.

Meanwhile for DeviantART... I personally don't think I'll be reviving that one, in my personal experience, I ran out of engagement in 2015 (I've been there in 2009 with other accounts) and ever since I just moved to other places, also posting wise is a bit more uncomfortable than the other ones.

[GumshoeComix]

I've been wanting to leave twitter for years now but no, i'm staying because i have some friends on there and I need to find another place to go and market my comic.
And so far I haven't heard anything about mastodon that makes me want to switch. I might start using pillowfort again, though idk ???
I know a lot of people are saying to go to discord or tumblr but my tumblr is for me and my discord is for friends so that doesn't work for marketing
doesn't help that I wasn't good at marketing to begin with

[Caro]

Not sure yet. I don’t go on twitter everyday but I have a pretty good following of 25k+ and a lot of industry contacts and personal friends on there that I’m not 100% sure are leaving since a lot of us are in a similar situation.

For now, I’m playing it by ear and seeing where it all goes.

[Nugtown]

People aren't going anywhere if porn isn't allowed, which was the WHOLE reason people migrated to twitter to begin with.
That being said, I'm still keeping an ear to the ground. I want any excuse to leave this awful site.

[Llyrel]

Pillowfort invites can be found here!

Just let me know which one(s) you picked so I can remove them from the list

[SynergyEclipse]

Already did last year though it was gradual and I just stopped updating. It was easy for me to give up because I didn’t use it very much anyways. I couldn’t keep up engagement and with the fast pace, and I knew it. I wrote some promotional posts and tried to post regularly, but I still felt my morale slip and couldn’t regain it.

I also made a site on Neocities and post updates there. It took a lot of extra effort to code a site, but it was fun!

This year I joined Mastodon.art, and it’s an instance I can highly recommend for promoting art! It feels a lot more laid back and the larger character limit for posts is very helpful!

I’m not sure how quickly those invites will last for Pillowfort, but it looks like an interesting platform and I like its focus on building communities.

[irresponsiblepics]

What's a twitter? Is it like friendface or the like?

[LostKelp]

Artfol is pretty small and pleasant and has similar features to twitter while being more focused on artists. it's still in development but pretty good imo.

[angie_draws_things]

Twitter wasn't my main platform, and it is the one I joined relatively recently and has the fewest followers. (I also don't post anything extra there) I already removed the Twitter logo from my "follow us" image, and I will probably just fill that gap with Patreon, once I can get things figured out.

I have better things to do than watch that nonstop dumpster fire of a mid-life crisis destroy Twitter because he is an entitled moron.

[OohitsEli]

I was never in that godforsaken place and now thankfully I will have no motive to go

[SamAndFriends]

I abandoned Twitter like two days ago bc Idk I'm not a boomer (way to young) but this made me feel like one and I didn't get AT ALL how to gain followers.
Then I got a post, a recommended post, in category "Rock" (??) that was some political brainwashing bull puke and I said thats it Twitter, I'm gonna delete my account.
But I didn't find where to delete it so I deleted the app christ I'm such a boomer in a mid twentys body.

[thepenmonster1]

Thank you very much. I used 10

[Llyrel]

You're welcome!

[sushy00]

I am not abandoning it but I do have a Mastodon account now.

[rajillustration]

Yep, pretty much. Like it's one thing to have to toil for attention on a social media site, but when it's going in a direction where I sincerely don't think Musk wants Twitter to even have a future, I'm out. It's honestly going to only get worse as the layoffs continue, and the culture is only going to get worse under his influence. I don't see why I should waste my time by putting too much emphasis on it. So lately I've been going to short form video, over on the tik tok and the reels.

[thepenmonster1]

Pillowfort does seem good in the couple of days I've used it.

[TroyVSTheWorld]

I do like the interface of Pillowfort, it kind of reminds me of the old days of Livejournal. But, like, way better. I'm gonna keep my eye on this platform--Considering how small yet growing it is, it might not be a bad idea to support the team since they're only asking for a buck a month. Just saying, if Pillowfort WERE to take off, all us comickers with a foot in the door already might find ourselves in an advantageous position down the line.

PS: I did make a Mastodon account last week, but I'm really not feeling it there. PF immediately has me curious about future prospects. If anyone wants an invite, I can offer you one. Looks like users get 3 codes a week to hand out.

[GamerPrincessXI]

Nahhhhh, I can't give up Twitter. Its too addicting lol. Someone make a meme about two mannequins, one crying and the other laughing followed the quote, this mf paid for Twitter. Thats a great meme. One time, I asked my followers why they follow me, I got no response from them and 10 more followers. Lol its a chaotic mess.