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> I am really tired of fighting the social media corporations' constant decisions to de-emphasize posts with offsite links to places where I can get people to p
by ziml77 5y ago
> I am really tired of fighting the social media corporations' constant decisions to de-emphasize posts with offsite links to places where I can get people to pay for my work.
I only just recently learned of this. Younger people are equally unexcited by that bullshit. I saw an artist, who's in her early 20s, always posting the link to her Twitch streams as reply to the Tweet where she'd announce that she's streaming. I asked her about it and she told me that links to other sites never make it into peoples' timelines. She and her boyfriend also write words like Patreon and commission in leetspeak to avoid any issues with those.
And you're absolutely right about NFTs. There is only hate for them among the furry artists that I follow (and there's a lot of them given that's all I'm on Twitter for). They hate the environmental impact. They hate the theft of artwork. They hate the scams. And they just think NFTs are overall pointless.
- egypturnash 5y agoI'm so tired of seeing my friends tweet about their "p*treon" without even appending a link, it's such a horrible little hellworld detail. I don't bother with that but I sure have ended up with the habit of tweeting the art, then tweeting links to buy prints, support me on Patreon, and read more about how I did the piece on my blog, as a reply, in hopes that this will suppress the post less. I should probably try actually looking at Twitter's analytics to see this for sure but I find staring at that shit and trying to modify my behavior towards what Twitter likes to amplify to be pretty depressing and stressful. You will probably be unsurprised to find that I am a furry artist. :)