These NF*Ts are popping up everywhere and its really grinding my gears :vanora_huff:
I just want a comfortable corner of the internet where I can just post my art, look at others' art, participate in fun art-related events and tags, and just ignore the money-starved rest of the internet and all its negativity! Although I had settled for the ever-so-negative twitter as my place to chill. Algorithms will always suck, but I can at least filter out my feeds enough that 99% of it is just exactly what I enjoy--art, cats, and video games.
Now even that is more noisy cause everyone is so angry about more NF*T pushing.

Nowhere is safe and chill anymore for the purpose of these gallery-based social websites. Its really quite sad!
DA was corrupt a long time ago, but there used to be a lot of alternatives. Now, everywhere is the same greedy story. Or absolutely dead of traffic and pointless to use anyway.

Sigh
its very tempting to just delete all of my major social media accounts, because these companies really are not worth us using their platforms!
They ignore their users because outrage engagements are still engagements. All in all, they get paid either way, so they'll push all they want without consideration. Like "hey, you all dont like this? Lets shove it in your face more aggressively."

*huffs*

@Totalanimefan:
Yeah, its just hard keeping up on here with mobile ;;
and I need something more gallery-like for art posting.

@Totalanimefan:
Pinterest is just a hoard of stolen art :vanora_cry:
corrupt as the rest of them
tumblr has turned to nfts, IG all the same and it crops images anyways
DA is already sucky, but I believe they have also turned to this, and also use it as another thing to charge people for "protection" against nfts but it doesnt actually do anything but tell you if it finds one that was stolen of your work
I havent checked how FA is doing, but im not really into nsfw sites esp since Im at work most of the time when I'm scrolling. twitter is a lot easier for me to filter that stuff x___x'''

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*researches what NFT is* ...Oh, it's one of those crypto/digital currency(?) things. I honestly don't know why it became so popular all the sudden.

Also sucks to hear that some art (social media) sites has shifted to NFTs these days.

I dont know if I'd say its favored by the majority, but NFT people are very loud and proud because they see it as a get rich quick scheme.
It is riddled with fraud, real high energy consumption so its horrid for the environment, all for the sake of possessions.

This twitter thread actually words it pretty well for how I feel about it. Just add environmental and fraud issues to my list of concerns, of course. But it really is just this weird idea that I worry how it might grow and evolve into something worse than it already is.

Humans are too obsessed with possessions and gluttonous for money. But we can be more than this!

"to each their own" could be said if it wasn't consistently negatively affecting those who don't want to be involved with it, especially artists who get their work stolen constantly and the "job offer" spams about it, despite the artist being well known to not want anything to do with this culture.
its so constantly in our faces, its hard to enjoy the internet without another thing popping up

I saw this today and thought of the thread:

Upset Artist ↓



I didn't really understand the linked twitter, though. Perhaps it's because I'm coming from a legal knowledge base so it just sounds like rambling without any comparative basis. "Let that sink in," isn't persuasive to me. From what I've read so far, it stands on the foundation that no system can prove ownership and that's why NFTs are inherently incorrect. I think that's where I'm the most confused, because we have plenty of "systems" that do just that.

Either I'm not understanding what the definition of "ownership" is in the NFT context, or I'm missing something else.