Review bombing is petty and (like petitions) feels a little meaningless, but it's good practice for other activism, and is probably more likely to get attention than some of the other things we've been doing like mentioning owners or replying to threads. #BskyCensorship #SaveArt

the new tos sucks ass but if nothing else im glad it's encouraging more discussions about the nuances surrounding dub/noncon content, because if im being honest it's always felt odd occupying vore spaces where people like to pretend most of what you see in vore has nothing to do with consent play

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This is a good time for SFW artists to show solidarity with NSFW communities on this site. You're part of the what makes Bsky valuable, and it means a lot when you make it clear that we are part of the artistic community and that you consider our struggles to be yours. #BlueskyCensorship #SaveArt

App reviews of 1 star over mass censorship issues feels like a very proportional response. The dream of these people is to make a “sellable” product out of Bluesky, and if you want to reduce that potential value, mass app reviews with filled out critical comments is the way to go.

Do NOT believe the misinfo going around There absolutely have been MASSIVE TOS updates Most notably: 1) Specifying no FICTIONAL noncon 2) No "dangerous" kink 3) No DISCUSSING self harm, suicide, or substance abuse unless its "educational" So what can we DO about it? #SaveSpeech 1/🧵

I'm sorry I still just can't get over how they specifically call out "wow, a lot of you were worried about the impact this will have on creative expression and marginalized communities", and then spend the entire rest of the blog post not using the word "creative" or "marginalized" ever again.

speaking as someone who did Make Her Own Website, i would like to say that while i agree it’s awesome to have, and a vital lifeline, the way that you get people to look at your website in the first place is by linking it in a place where people are looking. social media is where people are looking

it should go without saying but if you want users to voluntarily tag their art then you need to not threaten to ban them if they do. like, you can either have a well-regulated, easily-filtered art ecosystem or you can ban art you don’t like and see it come oozing back out of every crack and crevice

The solution right now is not saying “move to Mastodon, to Pillowfort, use Picarto galleries” etc, bc that won't stop this silent escalation of censorship and sexual repression on the internet. The issue is not which platform we choose, but rather raising our voices against what is happening.

I keep seeing we need to go ____ site! type posts and guys, this is a temporary solution to the bigger problem: the desexing of the internet and puritanical rules and laws. Fur Affinity will host NSFW stuff...until a law say their server will get shut down. Your private site will host NFSW stuff..

Also also also, speaking as a vegan, love to see that completely fictional depictions of feral furry porn are depraved, but shooting animals with a gun IRL is Totally Fine (tm). We gotta make sure you understand that we allow *real* animal abuse! Don't worry! Just not in fiction. #vegan #SaveArt

To be clear, you should expect that a lot of artists are going to be getting a lot worse at tagging. That's not something I endorse, it just is what it is. Nopony is going to be tagging posts as rape now. It's just not going to happen. Why would they?

it is the year 2027, the only legal avenue for seeing and sharing porn is through geocaching

I offhand mentioned this, but now would be a really, really good time for #Blacksky to clarify whether it officially allows sex workers and dubcon/noncon fictional porn. I looked around for a TOS a little while ago and couldn't find the page - it's possible that I'm just bad at searching?

They gave a verified account to fucking JD Vance. This network is not too good for fictional noncon porn. Like, fuck off with this, the network that has been crowing about "composable moderation" every time we ask them to ban transphobes and racists now suddenly has standards? Since when?

I'm obviously looking at Blacksky, but Bluesky banning noncon isn't a problem Blacksky can solve. The audience will still be zero, my stuff still won't show up for the vast majority of critters following me. Credible exit my ass.

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What the fuck is this reporting!?! This article is full of misinformation and deceptive framing. www.theverge.com/news/781746/... #AIBullshit

btw I've had kind of a wild week from a bunch of traveling, to playing Silksong, to dealing with some pretty serious pet issues, to water repairs, so if you've contacted me about buying a commission I'll be trying to contact you back, but if I forget, do not be afraid to ping me.

A source familiar with internal workings at MasterCard notes the company is paying attention to calls around the payment processor issue. These calls continue to make the company uncomfortable internally

I heard a reviewer say "it feels like Team Cherry picked Godhome's Pantheon as the base template for how difficult the game should be", and I both fully agree with this, and also it's a big part of why I'm loving the game so much. #Silksong #Spoilers

It's now September 19th and there's still been no update. There was a lot of attention to this when we were submitting to the feedback form. But with Bluesky going completely silent on any of the problems, it's time to go further. Email [email protected] and let them know you want an update!

Genuinely in all seriousness, can someone at the Verge look up what prompt injection is, because this is fucking embarrassing. This is negligence. Even some of the worst reporting I've seen on AI is starting to clue into the fact that prompt injection exists. The Verge is uniquely bad. #AIBullshit

If you're enjoying this post and are feeling a little bit of fire about this and want to do a little collective action, can I trouble you to tag @jay.bsky.team and email [email protected] asking them why they haven't responded to critique of their new community guidelines like they promised to do?

Also also, just to tie everything with AI imagery and the NSFW censorship together and what community looks like, I'm reminded of how much fucking better NSFW commissioners are than the average SFW non-furry commissioner, and how proud the community should be of that, and how it's worth defending.

A thing I've said before, 99% of spam content right now online is using AI-generated images. Even if you're not AI, you have to care about the fact that you are making your product's packaging look indistinguishable from spam, right? Right? #AIBullshit

My friend sent in a request to her local NPR for them to talk about the censorship from ID laws and payment processors and I think it'd be great if you sent in something to your local station too. We need news outlets covering this on our side! (Under "new & fresh") help.npr.org/contact/s/co...

Let's start with what you know: calling reps: bsky.app/profile/cale... You can also call payment processors directly: bsky.app/profile/acva... The goal for the second is different than the first. With representatives it's to signal support, for payment processors it's literally to tie up lines.

Conservatives are now suing individual games, not just distributors. At every single step of this fight, critters have been looking for technical solutions out of it. First it was "well, just use a VPN." Next up, "just publish to your own website." This is a political problem.

I know I complain about Bluesky (still waiting on that response to feedback on the new community terms), but there's a reason with all of its problems I'm on here and not Twitter. We all compromise with social media. I use platforms I don't like. Twitter is another category beyond that.

I'm live on https://piczel.tv/watch/foxyoreos and https://picarto.tv/foxyoreos Cleaning up a few commissions, planning the next batch :3 #vore #furry #FurryStream #LiveStream #FurryArtist #Piczel #Picarto

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This is not an American phenomenon, but is very commonly an American thing. Critters being mad they can't eat peanuts on an airplane. Critters being angry about wearing Covid masks. See alt text debates. Debates about game difficulty (on both sides!) We don't like being reminded about community.

A lot of moderation issues on Bluesky come from the devs being told like once that maybe they should CW eye contact, and because they didn't understand or empathize with the need, they went, "that is Unacceptable" and went and made a network where I can't mark text posts as pornographic.

Remember everyone, sometimes even the most preyish people might get into preddy moods. Respect them when they're in such moods and dont say, 'but you're just a prey bitch, get in a belly.' Its discounts their desires and is quite rude. Encourage them, feed it and let them flourish.

I'm live on https://piczel.tv/watch/foxyoreos and https://picarto.tv/foxyoreos Getting back into the swing of things: commission cleanup and miscellaneous :3c #vore #furry #FurryStream #LiveStream #FurryArtist #Piczel #Picarto

If you can get the updated Covid booster now, do it, because more restrictions may be coming. (I got mine last week!)

Continuing to ask that critters drawing scenes from Silksong use the #SilkSong tag. I don't think that's a large ask. If you upload a spoiler comic with zero alt text, zero tags, zero *anything* to filter the image, I am temporarily muting your account. I don't think this is unreasonable.

Traveling was my opportunity to sit down and play though a chunk of Silksong. I'm still muting every term related to the game, I do NOT want spoilers. But even though I haven't finished the game yet, I do feel qualified to give a review. Spoilers below! #silksong #spoilers

Some actual news coverage! <3 - www.gamespot.com/articles/ste... - www.eurogamer.net/queer-develo... - www.ign.com/articles/ste... - automaton-media.com/en/news/cred...

Incidentally, if you don't like porn, aside from the fact that they're coming for you too, do you know why else you should be worried about this kind of censorship? Because all of the labeling and CWs we NSFW creators add to our stuff is based on the idea that we won't get banned for those labels.

When Tiktok was under threat of getting banned, the company directly mobilized its users, resulting in one of the most aggressive political call-in campaigns in my recent memory. Many commentators scoffed at this and said that this was a mistake, that it only made politicians more determined. BUT

Coming after Bluesky's strong response to Mississippi, their response here is weak-sauce bullshit. I don't mean that Bluesky should pull out of these states; but their statement about these laws should be stronger. Bluesky comes barely short of endorsing age verification in its statement.

If you're a reporter or a news org and you covered Mastercard/Visa's original statements that they don't censor legal art, I would think you'd be really interested in them saying that *fantasy* is a banned category of adult material. Seems like that's worth a comment!

I've had to take a step back from constantly posting about Visa/Mastercard/Paypal/Stripe and doing the art stuff so that I can prioritize paying the bills >w< But it is still a major concern, and censorship is still ramping up, and we still haven't gotten any concessions from any of them.

Gartner predicts that by 2030, 25% of IT tasks will be completely automated with AI. I expect that's going to free a lot of critters up to spend more time in the metaverse. www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/... #AIBullshit

There have been a few (good) responses that I've seen about this (although they need more followup). I'd edit the original post to include them and hopefully diffuse the situation a little bit, if I HAD AN EDIT BUTTON, JAY

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