When I saw this in the telegram channel I was so utterly confused - Mastodon and e621 are such wildly different websites with goals that are so far apart from each other it's not even funny. Anecdotally, I've heard that a lot of artists request e6 DNP based on not wanting to be associated with the site / porn collection / etc., which makes sense. F.E/Mastodon is very much not that, so it's just... ???
And in fact a lot of my art is from my IRL friends, who are on the DNP list. So would I not be able to post art of myself?? Like what???
Mastodon is a social media platform, which for art publicizes people's work. Publicity and social media for art is good. e6 is not a social platform, which is why they have a DNP list. And for Mastodon anyway, most accounts in the Fediverse are not on this server, so it's moot. I get why you'd want to have a DNP list, but aside from "patreon exclusives" or other obviously wrong stuff, I think it should be scrapped entirely.
@crashdoom thanks for reconsidering this rule.
When I saw this in the telegram channel I was so utterly confused - Mastodon and e621 are such wildly different websites with goals that are so far apart from each other it's not even funny. Anecdotally, I've heard that a lot of artists request e6 DNP based on not wanting to be associated with the site / porn collection / etc., which makes sense. F.E/Mastodon is very much not that, so it's just... ???
And in fact a lot of my art is from my IRL friends, who are on the DNP list. So would I not be able to post art of myself?? Like what???
Mastodon is a social media platform, which for art publicizes people's work. Publicity and social media for art is good. e6 is not a social platform, which is why they have a DNP list. And for Mastodon anyway, most accounts in the Fediverse are not on this server, so it's moot. I get why you'd want to have a DNP list, but aside from "patreon exclusives" or other obviously wrong stuff, I think it should be scrapped entirely.