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What is it with the furry art community and mastodon? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Alexmitter@kbin.social to c/chat@yiffit.net

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I use twitter and I really like the furry art community on there. I also like Mastodon or related ActivityPub services.

Due to recent events lots of people search for alternatives and I feel just very frustrated see all those artists looking for Zucks Threads or Jacks Bluesky when Mastodon is right there, without a chance of a twitter situation ever happening again. They seem to avoid Mastodon like cats avoiding water.
What have we done wrong, and how can we make it better.

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[–] Alexmitter@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

And to help them use mastodon, developers could create tools that would make it easier to post and read to/from multiple services at the same time

I am not sure if that is actually the issue. Many artists already post on multiple commercial services and it was never seen as a problem.

[–] crazy_pony@rubber.social 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

@Alexmitter @Wander @kitsuneofinari @Mugox

one thing that i heard several times from artists and makers is that they do not want to join Mastodon/Fediverse because "advertising" and "selling" here is prohibited, or they even tried and got rejected

[–] Alexmitter@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I mean any art account of someone that takes commissions is basically advertising, and any chat with a user could be selling. Where is that prohibited?

[–] crazy_pony@rubber.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Alexmitter @Wander @kitsuneofinari @Mugox
<i> am not sure, its what i got to hear several times when i tried to invite people on FA or FL to join Mastodon/Fediverse

[–] Wander@yiffit.net 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If they had a better understanding of the platform they'd probably know that such rules depend on the instance you join.

[–] crazy_pony@rubber.social 3 points 1 year ago

@Wander today i would suggest for example https://mastodon.art/@Curator/110655120117161036

But back in 2022 things might have been too early and we lost the opportunity

[–] Alexmitter@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that this is kind of a pattern. Different rules and de-federation between instances that confuses new users. But how could this pattern be broken.

[–] crazy_pony@rubber.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Alexmitter @Wander @kitsuneofinari @Mugox seemingly random and unknown de-federation or at least muting between instances confuses still even the old users beeing here for more then 5 years

(currently i am in a situation where i dont know if some 2 persons on meow.social either deliberately ignore my contact attempts since a year, or if they technically never have seen my messages)

[–] Mugox@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

Offtopic: I'm on meow.social, if you want to test DMs you can try DMing me @Crazy Pony. My profile: https://meow.social/@Mugox

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