#( i ain't shadowbanned but people are so. yeah )

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

Have officially begun the process of moving all my content onto the new blog bc my faith in support to actually fix the issue does not actually exist.

If it gets fixed I'll keep using this blog like I've been and just consider the other one a backup. Otherwise I won't be deleted this blog, but I won't be using it regularly (if I continue to), and not for posts meant to go into tags.

I'm not following people yet bc I'm still in the process of moving posts, which means mass reblogging, which means 200 posts straight per day until I'm caught up.

[olderthannetfic]

I find both sad and exasperating that people see the word "report" and immediately think in the worst thing that could happen and the "extremist" line of action you could do, as in being a personal attack.

Like, I get it. We all live in this Social Media Hell, and getting reported on those means getting censored, getting deleted, shadowbanned, you name it. Reporting on the Social Media Hell also feels like a moralistic thing to most people, and algorithms usually benefits the "Bad Guys" (like when you report a racist shit on FB and the notification of "we didn't find anything that breaks our ToS in this post" appears, ruining your day) at the end.

But that "reporting" is not the same reporting that happens on AO3, and I'd like if people would at least change their view of it only on AO3. The best way I can describe reporting on it is being the neutral ground. Like, I'm not here talking only about things that are RUDE to do like being a capitalist (a reference *wink wink*) and putting your ko-fi/patreon in there, no. I'm talking about more... minimal things, like selecting "català" as the fic language when is CLEARLY written in english (if this feels too specific is because it is, I saw that).

When I say is the "neutral ground" is that being reported won't get you censored nor immediately deleted (as someone pointed out, it depends who take your case, and getting your text deleted when is NOT a fanwork is expected —or like, sometimes is because the emails went to spam and you never check that out), AO3 will contact you and ask you to change the thing, because an incredible amount of people will "obey" (for lack of a better word, my English is cranky today) and "AO3 authority" instead of a internet random leaving a comment in their fic. Is a neutral ground because you skip the possibility of the author being an asshole to you, deleting your comment and/or ignoring your good faith request of changing the language because is incorrect.

So like, yeah. Is not a "moralistic and puritan" tool or action in this specific case. MAYBE it is in Social Media Hell, but AO3 ain't social media. Is important to learn that distinction.

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Yeah, for real. I'm willing to believe that AO3's enforcement team has been too hasty at some point because teams are made of people, but by and large, the cases where they ~cruelly deleted without warning~ are liars who know perfectly well they had like 87 warnings about their bad behavior. Abuse can't talk about cases, after all, so we only know the other side of things.

[halcyandaze]

what happened to your deviantart

sadly yeah it's gone now, longer explanation under read more

tldr: AI database scraping is a bitch and man the social media landscape looks pretty bleak rn woof

when deviantart starting pushing the eclipse redesign and got rid of access to the old UI it lost a lot of features and customization options and such that I and many other people enjoyed so it lost a lot of its charm, function, and users. so I stopped using it as much if at all

then when AI generated images started to pop off, the front pages (which always had an issue of always either only showing the same 5 popular artists who were buddy buddy with the site staff or untagged/filtered MS paint sonic inflation or anime foot fetish bases or some crap) became loaded with AI junk instead of, oh y'know, actual art

final straw was when deviantart started making their own AI image generator and made all accounts automatically opt in to having their images possibly used for the AI's database, and if you weren't ok with that, you had to manually go in and find and shut off all those new hidden settings. I felt I couldn't trust deviantart anymore, I liked having my deviantart page still up even if I wasn't active because it was my first social media site where I shared art back when I was 13 years old, a literal whole decade of growth and memories. but I felt I couldn't have that anymore without risking it all being scraped or misused, so I finally deleted a while back. still kind of bummed about it but yeah no deviantart ain't what it used to be

I'm kind of in a similar boat with twitter right now. my posts get no traction, I never see content from the people I signed up to see posts from anymore and instead get nothing but blue checks and scams and ads and bots and AI, you can't even scroll more than 20 minutes without RATE LIMIT EXCEEDED or paying up and joining blue check loser circlejerk club, oh hey did you notice all tweet contents and imbeds prior to 2014 just got nuked off the place of the earth with no warning, they're trying to make their own AI with a database fed by tweets unless you lock up your accounts, but locked accounts are reporting their tweets and activity being seen by people who don't follow them and should have no way to see any of their posts but they show up somehow, anything can get you shadowbanned or blacklisted by The Algorithm, and rumor has it you may have to soon send government ID and sensitive info and images of your face to twitter HQ for verification to squash down the bots (that toooootally didn't get worse after the company got bought by that X obsessed nutjob nah this time he'll totally fix it you guys trust us)

yeah, I totally trust those loser dweebs who completely tanked one of the most popular social media platforms of the past decade in less than 6 months I totally don't see anything bad happening with having my legal government info on the twitter servers

so I'm currently in the process of also deleting my twitters if this shit doesn't improve. if you want to keep up with where I'm most active, go over on my carrd and I keep my links page updated with where I am and what I'm doing on each :]

[steelchorded-blog]

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