#online project

[one-half-guy]

Hello again...

Here is the site:

A quick intro:

Moegirlpedia is a Chinese wiki founded in October 2010. It also has an English and Japanese version, both launched in January 2013.

The main focus of Moegirlpedia is animation, comics, games, novels, and other types of media, along with the subcultures that originated from them.

Currently, the English and Japanese versions are terribly small and short on content, so I am showing this site around to others so that they might get interested and become new editors...

Here is a post I made about it.

It seems a very interesting website 😃

I am not fit to be editor of a wiki but there must be someone out there who is, so I will make this post to spread this project.

[bitesonmyneck]

[golyadkin]

you'll get the urge as an artist or a writer to say out loud the things you're worried about "the proportions are off" "kind of out of character" "i'm not good at summaries" "didn't get as much detail as i wanted" "i made a mistake and here's how" and that's the self-conscious part of your brain telling you "it's bad and if you don't tell them you know it's bad then they'll think you're stupid" but you've got to ignore that little voice and pretend you think it's good or else that little voice is going to ruin your life

[thegalleonsnest]

OK since I haven't seen too many people talk about this since twitter news usually strikes pretty fast over here whenever e'usk does anything ever, let me give ya'll the run down on two things that will go live on NOVEMBER 15TH and why people are mass migrating to Blue Sky once more; and provide resources to help protect your art and make the transition to Blue Sky easier if you so choose:

The Block function no longer blocks people as intended. It now basically acts as a glorified Mute button. Even when you block someone, they can still see your posts, but they can't engage in them. If your account is a Public one and not a Private one, people you blocked will see your posts.

They say because people can easily "share and hide harmful or private information about those they've blocked," they changed it this way for "greater transparency." When in reality, this is an extremely dangerous change, as the whole point of blocking is to cease interaction with people entirely for a plethora of reasons, i.e. stalking, harassment, spam, endangerment, or just plainly annoying and not wanting to see said tweets/accounts. or you know, for 18+ accounts who do not want minors interacting with them or their material at all (There is speculation saying these changes are specifically for Elon himself so he can do his own kind of stalking, and honestly, with the private likes change, it lowkey checks out in my opinion)

Also, this straight up goes against and may violate Apple and Google's app store policies and also is straight up illegal in Canada and probably other countries as well.

If this ACTUALLY goes through, twitter will only be available in select countries, probably exclusively in the US, which would collapse the site with the lost of users and stock, and probably be the last push it needs to kill the site. And if not, will be a very sad and exclusive platform made for specific kinds of people who line up with musk's line of thinking.

2. New policies regarding Grok AI and basically removing the option to opt out of Grok's information gathering to improve their software.

And anything you upload/post on the site is considered "fair game" with "royalty-free licenses" and they can do whatever they please with it. Primarily using any and all posts on twitter to train their Grok AI. A few months ago, there was a setting you can opt out of so they couldn't take anything you post to "improve" Grok, but I guess because so many people were opting out, they decided to make it mandatory as part of the policy change (This is mainly speculation from what I hear).

So this is considered the final straw for a LOT of people, especially artists who have been gripping on to twitter for as long as they can, but the AI nonsense is too much for people now, including myself. Lot's of people are moving to Blue Sky for good reason, and from personal experience, it is literally 10x better than twitter ever was, even before elon took over. There is no algorithm on there, and you can save "feeds" to your timeline to have a catered timelines to hop between if your looking for something specific like furry art or game dev stuff. It's taken them a bit to get off the ground and add much needed features, but it's genuinely so much better now

RESOURCES

Project Glaze & Cara

If you're an artist who's still on twitter or trying to ride it out for as long as you can for whatever reason you have, do yourself a favor and Glaze and/or Nightshade your work. Project Glaze is a free program designed to protect your art work from getting scrapped by AI machines. Glazing basically makes it harder to adapt and copy artwork that AI programs try to scan, while Nightshade basically "poisons" works to make AI libraries much more unstable and generate images completely off the mark. (These are layman's terms I'm using here, but follow the link to get more information)

The only problem with these programs is that they can be resource intensive for computers, and not every pc can run glaze. It's basically like rendering a frame/animation, you gotta let your pc sit there to get it glazed/nightshade, and depending on the intensity and power of your pc, this may take minutes to hours depending on how much you wanna protect your work.

HOWEVER, there are two alternatives, WebGlaze and Cara

WebGlaze is an in browser version of the program, so your pc doesn't have to do the heavy lifting. You do need to have an account with Glaze and be invited to use the program (I have not done so personally so I don't know much about the process.)

Cara is an artist focused site that doubles as both a portfolio site and a general social media platform. They've partnered with Glaze and have their own browser glazing called "Cara Glaze," and highly encourage users to post their work Glazed and are extremely anti-ai. You do get limited uses per day to glaze your work, so if you plan on doing a huge backlog uploading of your art, it may take awhile if your using just Cara Glaze.

Some twitter users have suggested glazing your art, cropping it, and overlaying it with a frame telling people to follow them elsewhere like on Bluesky. Here's a template someone provided if you wanna use this one or make your own.

Blue Sky Resources and Tips

So if your a twitter user and your about to realize the hellish task of refollowing a massive chunk of people you follow, have no fear, there's an extension called Sky Follower Bridge (Firefox & Chrome links). This is a very basic extension that makes it really easy to find people on Bluesky

It sorts them out by trying to find matching usernames, usernames in descriptions, or by screen name. It's not 100% perfect, there's a couple people I already follow on Blue Sky but the extension could not find them on twitter correctly, but I still found a huge chunk of people. Also if your worried that this extension is "iffy," they do have a github open with the source publicly available and the Blue Sky Team themselves have promoted the extension in their recent posts while welcoming new users to the platform.

FEEDS and LABELS

OK SO THE COOLEST PART ABOUT BLUESKY IS THE FEEDS SYSTEM. Basically if you've made a twitter list before, it's like that, but way more customizable and caters to specific types of posts/topics. Consolidating them into a timeline/feed that exclusively filled about those particular topics, or just people in general. There's thousands to pick and choose from!

Here's a couple of mine that I have saved and ready (down below). Some feeds I have saved so I can jump to seeing what my friends and mutuals are up to, and see their posts specifically so it doesn't get lost in reposts or other accounts, and also specialized feeds for browsing artists within the furry community.

The Furry Community feeds I have here were created by people who've built an algorithm to place any #furry or #furryart or other special tags like #Furrystreamer or #furrydev. They even have one for commissions, and yes you can say commissions on a post and not have it destroyed or shadow banned. You are safe.

If you want, and I highly recommend it to get visibility and check out a neat community, follow furryli.st to get added to their list and feeds. Once your on the list, even without a hashtag, you'll still pop up in their specialized feeds as just a member of the community there. There are plenty of other feeds out there besides this one, but I feel like a lot of people could use one like this. They even got ones for OC specific too I remember seeing somewhere.

And in terms of labels, they can be either ways to help label yourself with specific things or have user created accessibility settings to help better control your experience on Blue Sky.

And my personal favorite: Ai Imagery Labeler. Removes any AI stuff or hides it to the best of it's abilities, and it does a pretty good job, I have not seen anything AI related since subscribing to it.

Finally, HASHTAGS WORK & No need to censor yourself!

This is NOT like twitter or any other big named social media site AT ALL, so you don't have to work around words to get your stuff out there and be seen. There are literally feeds built around having commissions getting and art seen! Some people worry about bots and that has been a recent issue since a lot of people are migrating to Blue Sky, but it comes with any social media territory.

ALSO COOL PART,

you can search a hashtag on someone's profile and search exclusively on that profile as well! You can even put the hashtag in bio for easy access if you have a specialize tag like here on tumblr. OR EVEN BUILD YOUR OWN ART FEED FOR YOUR STUFF SPECIFICALLY!

So yeah, there's your quick run down about twitter's current burning building, how to protect your art, and what to do when you move to Blue Sky! Have fun!

[audristarzz]

JUST A REMINDER!

just in case of those who are stressed and panicking about the senate vote for KOSA. Yes I know it’s scary and stressful but

1. Do not give up hope!! Spread the word about KOSA to friends, family (or trusted adults) and call/email/sign and if you are unable to due to personal reasons, spreading it to other people is okay and I appreciate your help.

2. if it DOES pass senate tomorrow it is not the end. If it passes senate it does not go into effect right after, it still needs the House vote and from what I’ve heard it has more opposition in the House than Senate. So focus on House more

3. With election year it might slow down some process of KOSA and give us more time to tell our reps and senators what we want which is NO to kosa.

4. Call Chuck at (202) 224-6542 but to it respectfully. Even if he wants to push KOSA tomorrow let him know what you want. Tell him how it is so harmful to LGBTQ+ members (especially minors in situations that are unsafe for them) the first amendment right and the government ID which could lead to harmful and dangerous consequences.

If I’ve missed anything or unintentionally spread misinformation please politely let me know and I will fix this post asap. thank you to all for fighting and using your voices. We can stop this horrible bill if we keep calling. You’re all doing amazing and I’m proud of you.❤️

[project-sekai-facts]

In the Bake no Hana 2DMV, Mizuki is depicted standing behind a closed door that separates her from the other members of 25-ji, Nightcord de. and KAITO, who are shown standing together.

This could represent the distance Mizuki put between herself and the others in the past by not being open about her secret with them, or it could represent Mizuki running and shutting herself away from everyone at the end of the Where Does the Path of Thorns Go? event story. Alternatively, you could view it as a visualisation of coming out [of the closet].

[insufferablemod]

The 2025 Homestuck fan calendar is officially open for pre orders which means I can post this bad boy! B)

[yeonjune]

Yeonjun about the strain he felt while preparing for his debut solo project ✙ "GGUM" MAKING FILM

[chaotic-solutions]

nightcord gender thoughts

[monsterkasa]

ok here's an actual prsk hot take. don't take prsk too seriously. it's just a game. "the mind brand cover was bad" "queen should have gone to niigo" "____ card set is bad" It's okay. it'll be okay. the moment you stop worrying about it and fighting with people on twitter/tiktok over trivial prsk opinions you will feel better. i prommy

[kingmaxstatic]

Wanted to draw some hc designs for some sonic chars I write for in my RP server! Maybe I'll make more in the future? Who knows but this was super fun to do.

[bucketofcursedbooks]

Just so yall know project 2025 will also be cracking down on "degenerative content" which is everything I love and brings me comfort. Movies, video games, literature, online content. If they deem it "immoral" they will want to destroy it. Archive everything you love! Pirate everything! Download everything! Your favorite movies, plays, fanfics, video games. Buy books before they get banned. Invest in thumb drives, blank cds, dvds, get downloading software on your devices, print things if you can afford it.

[bitesonmyneck]

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

“mia why did it take you 45 minutes to make an instant noodle”

well uh

well

look i got more ingredients in my kitchen than good sense okay

[pidgedee]

my full piece for @empires-rainbow-zine! i’m SO happy with how this one turned out. i feel like i really accomplished a lot with my art in 2023 and became so much more comfortable with backgrounds and rendering, and this one in particular stands out to me as one of my best pieces of the year :]

you can download the full zine here to see everyone’s gorgeous art! thanks to rhapsoddity for running the zine and the rest of the contributor team for bringing it to life; i’m delighted to have been a part of it ❤️

[audristarzz]

TOMORROW IS THE KOSA SENATE VOTE DO NOT LET IT PASS

KOSA has been denied before only because people voiced their opposition of it. We can do it again, if it does unfortunately pass senate we have time to possibly stop it before it reaches the House. Do not let the fascists take away our first amendment and LGBTQ+ rights. It already has some opposition which is good. Call today , fax , leave voicemails but do it respectfully BLOW UP THEIR PHONES!!! reblog and spread but actually do something, don’t panic but call/email/ voicemail. Call at (813) 492-2379