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Did you hear about the maiden in the glass coffin?

I've been mulling over this since I got it.

A lot of what the "best" social media for art depends on what kind of art you make and how much/in what ways you're willing/able to engage with social media.

Tumblr:

✅ Slow social media, i.e. posts can continue to circulate days/months/years after their initial posting. ✅ Ppl are chatty in the tags. 99.99% complimentary ✅ Great for detail-heavy, vertically oriented pieces ✅/❌ It's generally a slow build. Rewards persistence ✅/❌ Discoverability can be good if you have relevant tags to use (like a fandom, etc.), original art can take longer to find an audience 🟰 I haven't tried tumblr communities, so I can't speak to their effectiveness in connecting with other artists ❌Bad for horizontal art ❌Nsfw banned

Bluesky:

✅Not algorithmically driven (at this time) ✅Rewards earnest engagement with other users, seems pretty community-oriented ✅ Least punishing (but still punishing) for horizontally-oriented art ✅ Cool with nsfw (at this time) ✅/❌ Generally a slow build. Rewards persistence 🟰 Rewards shortform content ❌ Discoverability. Tags there haven't really worked for me? ❌ Bad for vertical art ❌ Seems fast to me. Posts drop off a few days after initial posting.

Also worth noting, staff on both sites have made… questionable calls in the past, and no social media is forever.

"It used to be a common belief that everything on the earth had its counterpart in the sea" - T. H. White, Bestiary: Being a Translation of a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century, 1954