Not that long ago FA had a disruption where a hacker took over the domain and repointed the site. Over a couple day period everyone was told not to trust the furaffinity site and not to login. This, having been my primary place to upload art had me consider alternatives on where I can post my commissioned artwork and interact with artists and friends over good art.

What I’ve decide to do is continue here, for now at least, while also uploading to my Pixelfed instance. Pixelfed is an open source federated project that is similar to Instagram however, with no corporate connections. Anyone with server space, their own domain, and a bit of time could setup an instance. Pixelfed, being federated, can link to a network known as the fediverse, which is an interconnection of social networking platforms, the most well known being Mastodon. Anything I post to Pixelfed is immediately broadcast over the fediverse to my watchers / followers on whatever platform they are using. boosts (like retweets) will send a copy of the recently posted piece to all the boosters followers, always linking back to the source. Anyone can follow the original or boosted content to immediately gain access to any future posts. If someone clicks the like button on their social media it immediately populates in the original posting marking who liked it. Comments work similarly with no need to go to the original post. Comments are nested and can also be liked and commented on. Its even possible to add an image to a comment. Those comments and likes are then broadcast over the fediverse to everyone so if you stumble on a post it will have all the current stats and comments nested below the piece. There is of course, also a website that houses all of my content which can be organized into collections(folders) and each post can belong to multiple collections so all my posts can be organized into categories for the character, the artist, or a theme. Content can be censored / blurred for NSFW or sensitive subjects but ultimately that is up to the instance’s owner on what to do if its your server its your rules however other instances can choose to ignore your content if you don’t play nicely.

Anyhow. a few days ago I finished setting up my Pixelfed instance and I’ve started posting to it. Should anyone like to watch me their you can do so from any platform that connects to the fediverse @tsargoth@draconomicon.com alternately you can click the link to visit the web front end and see all of the content available. Embyr (Sugar.Rush)has an account there as well and you can follow her @embyr@draconomicon.com.

While this is a social media platform its primarily intended to share images and video so you won’t likely find much from myself or Embyr there that doesn’t have anything to do with art. If you’re interested in more everyday social interactions you can follow me @tsargoth@draconity.me

Take care,
Tsar