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Mar. 14th, 2025 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavodd little online habits of mine if anyone was curious about various patterns on my art accounts:
* I'll reblog cool art on bsky if the creator is under my follower count (simply because i'd have a worthwhile positive impact), but i'll delete the reblogs in 24 hours so it doesn't clutter up my feed if somebody's looking for my work. Also so they don't get caught up in the crossfire if an art harasser decides to go after me.
* recently adding "more like this [$link to blog archives of the fandom]" on newly posted bsky pieces, for multiple reasons: (1) subtly (and maybe wishfully-thinking?) training people to click on personal site links with a little "treat" clearly dangled on the other end since i don't post everything on bsky. (2) consistently alerting people that there is a more stable off-site archive to begin with in case of nsfw art ever becomes more of an issue. (3) it keeps my personal site high on search engines with the sheer number of inbound clicks. tangentially, i have a tin foil hat theory that posting my personal site on hacker news frequently about five years ago accidentally "seeded" it on a number of indieweb initiatives before the whole AI rubbish.
* i'll actively throttle my follower counts if something starts picking up. personally, the sweet spot for 'art getting out there while flying under the radar' feels in the ballpark of ~2k followers. i think i had about 6-7k on twitter on the nsfw account before deleting it and was getting really uncomfortable with that attention. (throttling being turning off QRT's, turning off reblogs, posting some dead dove or with a totally different art style/fandom to scare off people, deliberately not posting for a while etc. basically the total opposite of engagement farming :D )
mind, i love positive attention on my art, don't get me wrong! but controlled steady-growth attention tends to bring less issues. thankfully i haven't had any issues with people adding me on starter packs, but on this note i'd probably quietly ask to be removed from starter packs since i want people *knowing* what they agree to when they click on follow.
* habitually deleting all posts older than a year or two, outside of certian artworks/resource posts that aged well.
* personal opinions are limited to here (since dreamwidth has many layers of friction against bad-faith individuals such as private journal toggling and also being on a "old" long form site), or to narrow topics such as (kink) art censorship. i find that a lot of experienced activists recommend that people stick to one topic they're passionate about to not burn themselves and their audiences out emotionally; it def holds true for me. I also feel like it creates less of an attack surface; that way if I'm posting about the right for lolisho to exist -already controversial- then bad actors have a very hard time using other parts of my existence as a weapon or vice versa (using that as a weapon, etc).
there's a non-zero chance that these habits along with a bunch mentioned on my harassment resource page that have kept me from getting dogpiled over the years.
* I'll reblog cool art on bsky if the creator is under my follower count (simply because i'd have a worthwhile positive impact), but i'll delete the reblogs in 24 hours so it doesn't clutter up my feed if somebody's looking for my work. Also so they don't get caught up in the crossfire if an art harasser decides to go after me.
* recently adding "more like this [$link to blog archives of the fandom]" on newly posted bsky pieces, for multiple reasons: (1) subtly (and maybe wishfully-thinking?) training people to click on personal site links with a little "treat" clearly dangled on the other end since i don't post everything on bsky. (2) consistently alerting people that there is a more stable off-site archive to begin with in case of nsfw art ever becomes more of an issue. (3) it keeps my personal site high on search engines with the sheer number of inbound clicks. tangentially, i have a tin foil hat theory that posting my personal site on hacker news frequently about five years ago accidentally "seeded" it on a number of indieweb initiatives before the whole AI rubbish.
* i'll actively throttle my follower counts if something starts picking up. personally, the sweet spot for 'art getting out there while flying under the radar' feels in the ballpark of ~2k followers. i think i had about 6-7k on twitter on the nsfw account before deleting it and was getting really uncomfortable with that attention. (throttling being turning off QRT's, turning off reblogs, posting some dead dove or with a totally different art style/fandom to scare off people, deliberately not posting for a while etc. basically the total opposite of engagement farming :D )
mind, i love positive attention on my art, don't get me wrong! but controlled steady-growth attention tends to bring less issues. thankfully i haven't had any issues with people adding me on starter packs, but on this note i'd probably quietly ask to be removed from starter packs since i want people *knowing* what they agree to when they click on follow.
* habitually deleting all posts older than a year or two, outside of certian artworks/resource posts that aged well.
* personal opinions are limited to here (since dreamwidth has many layers of friction against bad-faith individuals such as private journal toggling and also being on a "old" long form site), or to narrow topics such as (kink) art censorship. i find that a lot of experienced activists recommend that people stick to one topic they're passionate about to not burn themselves and their audiences out emotionally; it def holds true for me. I also feel like it creates less of an attack surface; that way if I'm posting about the right for lolisho to exist -already controversial- then bad actors have a very hard time using other parts of my existence as a weapon or vice versa (using that as a weapon, etc).
there's a non-zero chance that these habits along with a bunch mentioned on my harassment resource page that have kept me from getting dogpiled over the years.
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Date: 2025-03-15 06:03 am (UTC)When I was making my Dragon Age shrine I was looking for inspiration on the web and it was somehow incredibly difficult for me to find much. Most results for "fanshrine" kept showing me Zelda Breath of the Wild videos and physical shrines with figures. However! your Zihark shrine came up a lot. I thought that was cool.
habitually deleting all posts older than a year or two, outside of certian artworks/resource posts that aged well.
Only in the last couple of years have I realized how important this is. Thankfully an old tweet of mine that was gaining random attention years later was met with a sensible "that's x years old" by the main person's friend and died before I even noticed what had happened. I then went through my old tweets and, yeesh, a lot of it was just garbage, like "live tweets" with the context long gone. I screenshotted some nice interactions I had, then deleted as much as I could for free with tweetdelete and some of the rest by hand until I didn't even care about the site anymore and left.
All that got me thinking more about "the right to be forgotten" and the "digital garden" line of thinking where it's perfectly acceptable to go back in an edit old posts keeping them alive, growing, and trimmed. Even weeding them if they're truly dead, to stick with the botany metaphor.
I had seen J.D. share your resource through She's At It Again, I See. It's reassuring to have a resource like that at hand. I'm happy to learn you haven't been dogpiled! Prevention is better than cure right? Thanks for the tips. Stay safe!
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Date: 2025-03-24 03:55 pm (UTC)that's an interesting ancedote about the old tweet too - feel like some circles of people are getting wiser to the various cheap ways that other people stir up drama; really thankful that the other person mentioned how old the tweet was. context is really so much with how ephermal communication is these days.
stay safe too!
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Date: 2025-03-24 09:24 pm (UTC)Your fanshrine shows up on the first page of Bing, Duckduckgo & Marginalia Search when searching "Fanshrine"! It's pretty much just your page, Zelda, and physical shrines. I had to dig rather hard to eventually find something like Amassment.
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Date: 2025-03-24 11:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-03-25 01:30 am (UTC)I am still humming and hawing over how I want to design the character page I want to do. Though it's not Fire Emblem and wouldn't fit in with your link page, thank you though!
I found this site too with a directory of fansites/shrines: Amassment, if you're curious.