artists .... ARTISTS.... resist the urge to make alt accounts because you "don't want to clog up your main account with yapping"..... PLEASE YAP ON MAIN..........
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fr, I have alts but they're for porn and for a sanitized industry vibe but I barely use them. My main is for everything that I do for myself, art and yap included, and it's so much more freeing to exist as a *person* first
Throwing my hat into the ring here. (I want it back)
When I look for artists to support the biggest factor outside of art is Yapping or signs of life like sharing mutuals work or people they like. it tells me the person is real, also it's cute seeing gushing about ocs
Two cents from someone who enjoys scrolling art, yapping is fine but please resist the urge to reply react with imgs/gifs. Your media tab is your clean account. Socials really need to make better reply/react options
Feeds and tags are great but the issue is consistency. Not all artist use the same types of tags/feeds, or at all. I’m not aware of a simple path to filter an account with a tag, clicking a tag pulls in the global feed. All accounts do have media tabs. However I’m open to new ways to find cool art!
when you're on an account and they have a tag you can right click it and it gives you a menu option that says something along the lines of "see posts tagged by the user"! but yes the consistency is a tricky one and very much based on the individual
The thing is, I personally feel more comfortable following artists who also boost other artists by sharing their posts. It's not a transaction, and shouldn't be, but that makes me happier to boost theirs too. This doesn't happen on alt accounts. Also loving ACTIVE accounts that interact with others!
Also, you can literally make an art feed for yourself that people can follow if they only want to see your art posts. No need to make an entirely new account for that!
I feel like if I speak up LESS about my personal views on main, the higher *quantity* of follows I get.
When I speak up MORE about my personal views on main, the more *quality* follows I get, and I’m all about actually connecting with like minded people.
Love listening to other people yapping and just being people and idk why I cant apply that to myself, Im also guilty of making a side acc to be more "cringe" lol
While I won't make another BSky Alt, I think I might disagree with this. We don't make alts for Corporate or Algorithmic reasons, we do it to stay organized for ourselves and others. And for AtProto, it helps PinkSky users see our art easier than usual.
The only reason I have two accounts is one is for my business, which is also art
I’ll yap away on this account but I don’t want to directly clog up business with opinion/vlog posts, although I have no issue quoting my personal posts there. I recommend it for other artists
i tried so hard to resist this urge but i feel like second-hand embaressment for always yapping about yaoi non-stop unfortunately my alt has to suffice...
Two Instagram-like apps I’m aware of that run on Bluesky’s network (ATProto) are @flashes.blue and @pinksky.app. An amazing feature of these apps is that it ignores GIFs in users’ profiles! So if an artist uses a GIF on Bluesky, it won’t show up in Flashes and Pinksky!
Honestly I've been in such a dilemma about whether or not my followers are gonna be annoyed with my weird yapping since I take a long time to finish my art but a part of me is like, well this is my profile so I'll do what I want with it LMAO
Thank you for saying this because someone recently on my following got super pissed off about how much the rest of us talk “just to talk” and repost “just to repost” and I thought that was the point of social media
I mean, yapping is what earns you a reputation and then that's all people remember forever. Nobody gets the luxury of people forgetting, the fear of getting "this you?" because you didn't like a video game is always there.
you aren't really allowed to be yourself on a consolidated site like this
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When I look for artists to support the biggest factor outside of art is Yapping or signs of life like sharing mutuals work or people they like. it tells me the person is real, also it's cute seeing gushing about ocs
thooough I will prefer to use an alt for nsfw art 😚
AND THEN PUT THOSE # IN UR PROFILE
THIS SITE IS WONDERFUL FOR A REASON
When I speak up MORE about my personal views on main, the more *quality* follows I get, and I’m all about actually connecting with like minded people.
I’ll yap away on this account but I don’t want to directly clog up business with opinion/vlog posts, although I have no issue quoting my personal posts there. I recommend it for other artists
you aren't really allowed to be yourself on a consolidated site like this
honestly, artists, as "authentic" as it might look, maybe it is a good idea to just not yap or, at least tag it, like I do