Using it for porn sounds funny to me given the whole concept of “rule 34” being pretty ubiquitous. If it exists, there’s porn of it! Like even from a completely pragmatic prespective, it sounds like generating pictures of cats. Surely there is a never ending ocean of cat pictures which you can search and refine, do you really need to bring a hallucination machine into the mix? Maybe your friend has an extremely specific fetish list that nothing else will scratch? That’s all I can think of.

Personally I’m of the mind that as long as you genuinely wanted to create something and express yourself in some way, it’s always good and worthwhile art. Maybe he’s a a fame chaser and self centered, but I also have to imagine being constantly tormented all of the time might make you want to escape and also…be liked. Keep rocking Squidward, your art will always be bold and brash to me.

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Hey, please update the title to follow the post formatting of an “irl community” (in our case, a word, followed by irl). Artist credit in the title is great, but yeah I’ll give some time to update it (e.g. Artist_irl (Paws and Effect)). Thank you!

Edit: No response after half a day, removed.

Yeah, giving Google unfettered access to your attention span with their algorithm (or any giant corporation) is just a disaster waiting to happen. None of them are interested in your well being or helping you in any way, only to keep you engaging, and to try pushing narratives to the masses. These very same algorithms also determine how creators act and what they post, since disobeying the nebulous ‘algorithm’ results in having your video cratered.

As for PeerTube, I will tell you right out of the gate it won’t be a major supplement to offset something like YouTube watch time. You will find some fun though, it’s quite cool watching super indie stuff you end up enjoying, think like 2005 tier YT where people just kinda post stuff for fun. If you are a creative (e.g. artist, musician, maker, tech reviewer) and have the rights to your videos, MakerTube is the instance I’m on, and they would be happy to have you (my channel). If you aren’t a maker, you can browse the instance list and try to pick a server you’re comfortable with (all of them have an info page which shows their rules and what you can do). I know that’s tedious and overwhelming though, so I spent a little bit mulling for something I’d consider acceptable as a starting point and found Peertube.wtf. They seem to be open signups, allow video uploads with a high limit, non-US, a proper no bigotry policy, looks good at a glance anyway!

Adding to say I have the same experience. Not banned, never used a TPA, but downloaded RIF Is Fun when people were writing up a storm just to see what was even going on. When the blackouts happened, I saw the more and more unhinged shit the Reddit administration was doing to stifle the protests and decided to make my blackout permanent from then onward. My exposure to the Fediverse has entirely changed how I interact with megacorps and software now. If it’s not FOSS or DRM free stuff on my device, I don’t want anything to do with it. Obviously getting to 100% on that is a very tall order, but I’ve been making a lot of headway since 2023.

Even in spite of the vast disparity in quantity of content, I would vastly prefer Lemmy to current Reddit without contest. Even aside from the massive brain drain the blackout had, and all the ad related enshittification, imagine being punished for even upvoting awesome things like Luigi Mangione? Now instead of the countless years I spent leaving my art and constant comments to boost some boneheaded corporation, I can post them here and be involved with a movement controlled by individuals. A movement made for and funded by each other, instead of lining greedy pockets.

Technically I am still sick…of working here.

I think we would also do well to consume less content frankly. I’m closing in on two years since I’ve stopped viewing YouTube videos, and watching creators on platforms like Nebula or just buying indie media has been fine enough honestly. I also donate a fair bit to a creative focused PeerTube instance for my short videos.

Don’t take this as an all or nothing call though. Reducing reliance on the YouTube monopoly for your eyes, and being more adversarial to YouTube to any degree more than before is a net positive. Run ad blockers, use alternative front ends like Invidious, directly download videos with YT-DLP, and redirect your content consumption to more friendly platforms (or just reduce watch time in general). There is no true alternative to YouTube, but that doesn’t mean we should throw in the towel, or refuse to reclaim any bit we can back.

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Yeah, there’s actually hostile architecture in this pic too. That middle bit on the bench is designed to make sleeping very uncomfortable, and the poor dog is doing it anyway.

This is also why satire is dead, but I digress.

Punchline aside, they’re straight up blushing over it. I think whatever the idea is, they’re pretty into it.

The town should remove that freeloader magnet bench and add lines of nails to the sidewalk. Then, every god fearing patriot can rest easy, knowing they won’t have to see this ghastly moochery ever again. Better yet, remove the sidewalks too. If you aren’t paying to go somewhere in a privately owned vehicle, you don’t deserve to go there!

Thank you very much, I appreciate the kind words! >w<

Heck yeah, welcome to the club! You’ve even got full color, very cool, and thanks for sharing your art!

March 32nd already? Where has the time gone…

Glad you had fun making it, and yeah it is quite hard to use. But hey, it being so limited means we can just focus on the silly aspect and mess around! Thanks for sharing your drawing!

Welcome to the phone gang, thanks for sharing! Nya! :3

Gonna be real with ya, this just seemed like a good excuse to get people to draw and share some for fun, zero expectations art with me. I was right! Today has been awesome because of you all.

Heck yeah, cute drawing!

E621, a furry image site which hosts a lot of NSFW stuff. You do not have to see any posts to use this tool, it’s the landing page.