Agree with you on so many points. To be honest, Im kind of sitting this next bit of "F**ky wucky sh*t" out. In the past, when I thought it was prudent to exercise your choice in the midst of Bad Behavior By Owner/Admin/Team, and I would be open to telling any of my peers where I was gonna try next.
For us furries, we have gotten a good example of this, of the complacency in the form of sites like FA. They have done no end of poor shit, issues with moderation, making changes that dont reflect community and then gaslighting you for having issue with it. (hell, even I got my whole household IP blocked for someone's power trip over there at FA) But of course, even with some viable alternatives (Weasyl, to use just one example)...it really didnt matter. No one could risk leaving their comfort zone. No one wants to lose their friends or their fans (for those who do artwork and use social media for that reach). So people might try a new network but, nothing is going to stick.
So, for those who are adamant about leaving (because we wish to hold up our principles of not putting our energies into things done by Bad Actors), we are kind of stuck in the middle. I know I never fully killed off my Twitter accts, and just crosspost from there to the network Im trying. I know that you cannot lure people over to anything that doesnt seem lively enough for them. Yes, people are very much on that junk food kick as far as social media goes, so the alternatives have to be easy to use and on that will still let them still post to places like IG and Tiktok, with a way for that post to auto post to Twitter.
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For us furries, we have gotten a good example of this, of the complacency in the form of sites like FA. They have done no end of poor shit, issues with moderation, making changes that dont reflect community and then gaslighting you for having issue with it. (hell, even I got my whole household IP blocked for someone's power trip over there at FA) But of course, even with some viable alternatives (Weasyl, to use just one example)...it really didnt matter. No one could risk leaving their comfort zone. No one wants to lose their friends or their fans (for those who do artwork and use social media for that reach). So people might try a new network but, nothing is going to stick.
So, for those who are adamant about leaving (because we wish to hold up our principles of not putting our energies into things done by Bad Actors), we are kind of stuck in the middle. I know I never fully killed off my Twitter accts, and just crosspost from there to the network Im trying. I know that you cannot lure people over to anything that doesnt seem lively enough for them. Yes, people are very much on that junk food kick as far as social media goes, so the alternatives have to be easy to use and on that will still let them still post to places like IG and Tiktok, with a way for that post to auto post to Twitter.