Small Rant/Ramble (Basically on Twitter)
- deviant Art 10
- Twitter / X 9
- Tumblr 4
- Pixiv 21
- Facebook 0
- Instagram 1
- Threads 0
- Mastodon 0
- Hive Social 0
Today I finished working on some pending commissions and was meant to tackle the scheduling of some art, With the idea of using Sunday and Monday to take a small break and recharge or Draw
As you all know, my primary site to upload is deviantArt. Main disadvantages are that
My second site to schedule/post art is ExTwitter/X(?) which I usually enjoy the site by allowing me to post alts and what not. It has it's own up and downs, but with Musk it feels I REALLY needs to consider my options, I tend to listen artist complain about him (and that he basically does not care about artist in general, also wanting to implement AI shit and what not) Plus the limited space for characters, not to mention I can't even try/hire Twitter blue due it not being available in my country.
Third site is obviously Patreon, but here I basically drop things as soon as I have enough stuff to post and what not And is a paid site.
Basically There is the sta.sh folder of saved submissions and there is all the stuff that supposedly will be uploaded soonish.
The deviantArt part may take a while at times because I also have to scramble through Patreon to find the respective pieces that contain the art, the description and I try to link the respective people within the site. Usually it takes me a couple days to prepare (total about 3-4 days a month since I also try to schedule other arts like comms, request and whatever other thing I draw through the month.
Being honest, I find it quite hard multitasking. uploading on Twitter takes it's time, and adding another site likely won't help. (unless either I add more time to it, or remove another site.
What I look on the secondary site basically is:
Other optional stuff could be
Pillowfort is more community oriented (Basically people donate to keep the site independent), But I think they don't have a schedule feature yet, and I feel their tag system doesn't help neither.
While I wrote this, I can't help Pixiv is Really a good alternative as it has the main stuff I look for (Allows NSFW, schedule art (for premium) and seems to have a good control of tags) Main worry is posting my previous work, I could leave things as they are, but I feel posting some old artwork (mainly stuff with alts or stuff I really like) might help have things in a single place.
Tumblr doesn't allows NSFW stuff anymore (can be added but would be shadow banned)
I don't even consider Facebook/Instagram/Threads because I believe they don't allow NSFW, was never an option in my eyes TBH
Discord could be an option, but doesn't has the scheduling and I feel I would end up stressing a lot by managing work with a server, part of me has been wondering about integrating it with Patreon but basically I'm not very active on it, so feel might end up being pointless.
(I never looked at Mastodon nor Hive social since my mentality usually is "as long as the site works, I won't bother", But again, starting to feel the disdain from Musk on Twitter so I'm really starting to question if I want that site as a secondary option)
I think I'll use tomorrow to finish scheduling the stuff only on dA
Likely I'll just use Twitter to share/look art (since I no longer see art on deviant Art's thanks to Eclipse :V) (nor visit Pixiv as often TBH) and give it a thought on Pixiv likely will start with posting works/comics I really like and such and then pick a month to start scheduling stuff there.
If you read all the ramble, thanks. I appreciate you taking the time to do so.
Anyways, I wonder, out of the social media mentioned here, which ones you use with frequency? (Is multiple choice, but that thing is failling currently in mobile IIRC)