Snew 🍊Jul 25, 2023

Hmmm... I'm trying my darndest to get Twitter users to at least consider trying Mastodon. :") I know many mutuals who would be happy here rather than jumping onto another corporate/exploitative social media, but sometimes it feels like I'm talking to a brick wall. I speak from observing the cycle of corporate social media for 10+ years.

Bsky/Threads/Instagram/Etc are the "easier" options despite being detrimental to the future of networking. Sigh.

Show threadSera 🦊Jul 25, 2023
@Snewdraws I've been trying to use .art's ban against AI and NFT stuff to lure over my artist friends, but not only a few have listened so far. Maybe I should've told them about the blobfox emotes instead 
Show threadSnew 🍊
@Dreamstroph It shocks me that artists are picking a platform that has openly announced that they use posts to train AI!?!? (Bluesky) They are voluntarily feeding their artwork right into the AI machine. Arghh it makes me wanna scream >_<
Jul 25, 2023 at 4:01amWeb
Show threadSera 🦊Jul 25, 2023
@Snewdraws I guess they consider it the "safe" option among the socials that are available due to its popularity. A lot of the artists I know do this for a living, so I guess they're prioritizing whichever platform might net them more clients :/ Still, I'll keep recommending .art to anyone who will listen. It's just been so chill here and I love it 
Show threadA user Jul 25, 2023
@Dreamstroph @Snewdraws tbh, i saw artists with 1.5k on mastodon getting more filled commissions than on their 30k twitter accounts, so i guess they should focus on which platform will make they interact more with the artist, which as i saw mastodon looks like that platform
Show threadAndrea, Automancer, Sapphimancer ⚧️♾️Jul 28, 2023

@Dreamstroph @Snewdraws It's a combination of that, and BS and Hive released a statement that swears up and down "yes we feed all of your content to this AI, but we're not generating anything with it, we're just using it to tag and automod everything you submit".

Sure. I'll buy that with Hive's track record behind that statement...

Then there's also folks forgetting that Bluesky takes a very minimalist approach to....violent/hateful political activities. They give you a slider to turn on/off as to whether or not you wanna see it. Nothing more. Either people are willing to accept blind eyes or have just forgotten that. This after a month of Rainbow Capitalists quickly folding and disappearing in response to threats from those people...? Nah. BS ain't it.