No, I Dont Want A Cohost Acc. Why Should I Use Artfol. Inkblots UI Brings Me Agony. I Barely Use Bluesky

No, I don’t want a cohost acc. Why should I use Artfol. Inkblot’s UI brings me agony. I barely use Bluesky (Twitter 2) and when I do it’s 18+. No, I don’t want your new platform.

If you want to move platforms that’s your right but after going through wave after wave after wave of platform migration started by panic / outrage at the new thing™ and ending right where we started I must say: I can’t keep doing this shit.

No, Christ, I don’t want Buzz.ly 3. Because in a month or two more than half of you are right back where you started because the commissioners aren’t following you and you have to crawl right back, and yet we’re doomed to repeat this shit for some reason.

By all means, an iterator should not have a soul. They are supercomputers made to solve a problem or fill a niche and little else. But what if they did, and said souls were liquidated when the machine itself failed?

concepting. dont mind the dead scav in the bottom left

✦ POWER OF FOUR

Devourer, Lover, and Messenger are all here...but oh, whos that?

Find out under the cut!

Wendell. Who else could it be, that shadow creeping in the back of your eye? A trickster by nature, an herbalist by heart, Wendell is an older scavenger with a litany of tricks up her sleeve in order to make life just that bit more interesting. Pick a location, and she has both friends and foes who've bore witness to her strange knowledge, philosophies, and tactics. She doesn't survive the world. The world survives her.

Here's a doodle of the scav herself..

And the four pre-rendering!

by the way if you whine about 'purity culture' and that's summed up to you getting upset when someone says you're a freak for jerking it to lolisho zoo shit get the HELL out of here. my content is not, never has been, and never will be for degens

hrrhghgh

Not me wanting to make a self indulgent RW oc comic.. I know exactly what I want to do with Lover and what characters to introduce and how her ending goes. The most bioengineered story to make you cry

how to keep following people when a major social platform implodes

(...and you don't want to join 20 new websites)

First, get an RSS reader*:

Desktop: Feedbro (browser extension), QuiteRSS, Raven Reader

Android: Feeder

iOS/Mac: NetNewsWire

You'll be able to make a custom feed to follow blogs, webcomics, social media feeds, podcasts, news, and other stuff on the web all in one place. To follow something, find its "feed URL"-- often marked by an icon that looks like this ↓-- and paste it into your reader of choice as a new feed.

Some feed URLs for social media:

Twitter: Feedbro can use Twitter profile URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, use nitter.net/username/rss (or other Nitter instance) (You can get a CSV file of all the accounts you follow using "Download a user's friends list" on Tweetbeaver)

Tumblr: Use username.tumblr.com/rss or username.tumblr.com/tagged/my%20art/rss to follow a blog's "my art" tag (as an example)

Cohost: Use username.cohost.org/rss/public (WIP feature)

Mastodon: Use instance.url/@­username.rss

Deviantart: Info here

Spacehey: Info here

Youtube: Go to a channel in a web browser, view page source, and use Ctrl-F/Command-F to find a link that starts with "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id="

Instagram: Feedbro can use Instagram profile and hashtag URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, Instagram doesn't have RSS feeds, and due to aggressive rate limiting on their part, it's not so simple to generate a feed URL.

Facebook: Feedbro can use public Facebook group/page URLs as feed URLs.

(If you know an artist who exclusively posts to Instagram, you may want to gently suggest that they crosspost elsewhere...)

Also see how to find the RSS feed URL for almost any site. Try using public RSS-Bridge instances or Happyou Final Scraper to generate feeds for sites that don't have them (Pillowfort, Patreon, etc).

*You can set up your subscriptions in one reader and import them into another by exporting an OPML file.