I think bluesky needs a feature like twitter's old circles, or facebook groups Starter packs can only do so much and some of them are realllly not that properly curated.

I have a Bluesky account but I haven’t posted anything yet. 😅 I am not sure about it yet.

I've been stalked, mocked, blocked, trolled, cajoled, and plenty more on almost every social media platform (for decades). I doubt that any other awful app is going to be much different. I'll stick to my website. If people don't want to visit my site in order to learn more about my work... guess what? *I DON'T CARE.*

oh no.. I posted there my all works without nightshade / glaze.. ;-; I didn't know it allows scraping..

I do art shares and post regularly, but I barely get any engagement. Does it just take a while? But everyone says they get a lot of interactions so I think it has to be me somehow

I love bluesky but i sucks that i cant edit posts, it often make a stupid typo and have to delete my post and make a new one to fix it :(

Im currently trying to do stuff on Bluesky, it’s going really slow,😔 but it’s definitely a nice platform and everyone is really nice!

This is legit too good stuff

Umm i never tried made bluesky acc before since i thought you need code to get in tgere just like TH, i try to make one after this video and.. surprisingly you dont need one?

Watched the first half so far and I think your composition studies are so interesting!! I also want to be a comic artist and illustrator and I feel like eye catching compositions are difficult for me too. I should do more studies like you :)

I feel like my experience on bluesky is so much different from most artists tend to say... most of my posts get almost no engagemet. Sometimes my posts are not seen at all

Hah, I'm slowly getting a sketchbook tour of my own off the ground... and coincidentally an old one that I started waaaaay back in fall 2021! Great to see a tour from ya!

First!!!

Cara has some good portfolio functions, but it is still in beta and they are trying to build it out, even with a bunch of artists already being on there.

I was on Twitter for a while, but wasn't doing art then because I had no means to dive into digital art, so I just posted some things here and there for music stuff I liked and never grew. Decided to try Bluesky a few months ago and now I'm at 400 followers and growing and while the numbers are nice, I am meeting some amazing people and creatives, not just artists. I've been more confident to post my art there than anywhere else, so I'm happy that I found it. Here's hoping things don't get shitty...at least not for a while.

bluesky has a toxic alt text culture, i've seen artists being legitimately harassed for not using it, i also saw a lot of snarky remarks like "liked a picture, saw that it didn't have alt text so i removed my like and blocked the artist, hehe do better", , also saw a custom list someone created, called something like "artists we'd like to support if only they used alt text" - basically a lowkey "go harass these people" hitlist. and all these people just very conveniently ignore 1. mentally disabled artists for whom words are hard (is kinda why they are visual artists in the first place, to have a nonverbal form of self expression); 2. foreign artists for whom writing a comprehensible description in english is near impossible (and if you write a wonky one guess what - you get harassed). this is virtue signaling at it's most vile and the reason why i don't invest too much effort in bluesky, i can already smell how it's going to turn into twitter 2.0, just as toxic but maybe more snobbish lol. would love to be proven wrong, time will tell, but yeah that's my take. (also yes i know about #AltForMe but nobody's promoting it, i saw a dosen artshares that required mandatory alt text before i saw one that required mandatory alt text or altforme if you can't alt yourself. nobody cares, in bluesky's eyes visually impaired > nonverbal)

Bluesky has a lables feature that allows you to hide thing u dont want to see and lables accounts that u would want to block. Its difficult to set up tho cuz u have to know the name of the lable account. I also like that when u block ppl u cant search for there name and i hope its vise versa

This was so nice to know actually. Let me follow another fellow artist🎉

I've been on there a few weeks now, it's a little quiet but pretty chill. Got to finally reunite with a few old mutuals !

Whaaaaaa?Bluesky has ai? When didn’t they say we’re gonna have that? Nooooo I have my art work on there- sighhhhhhh n I lost my insta of 4 yrs so the trust issues are high right nowwwww

I don't know why people are saying bluesky isn't political. *IT ABSOLUTELY IS.* I have been lambasted by political bs for the longest time, and it's only gone down afer saying several times "I am not interested" and haven't managed to get them away from me even though I've went out of my way to try and stop it. Its frustrating as hell

I dunno, ive never had good luck anywhere with gaining an audience. Twitter never worked, and bluesky is the same.

Thank you so much for all these tips!! I've found using bluesky feels a lot more like Tumblr than Twitter in many ways which has instantly made it feel more welcoming than Twitter for me in an art regard 😂 Good to know, too, that bluesky reposts are closer to Tumblr reblogs, too, where likes don't do much but sharing the post does bc of a much less existent algorithm. That's the biggest thing I haven't been certain of when posting in the past, so I'll have to keep that in mind!

So how many hastag to used on bluesky?

Neither of these tips actually helped small artists like me. Gave it a year tried my best and it seems my twitter account is more active and manage to reach more people than on Blue sky. I eventually deleted cause no one cared or even seen my work. Not even hastags can save it.

People who save something from your account just to use it against you in the future have no lives Also I love the Kingdom of Zeal Corridors of Time in your back ground

How often should i post? been doing sonic fan art recently and my metal sonic painting got reposted a lot for some reason but my posts since havent been making any traction.

Oh man, new accts, pls, if you're real, don't put something ai ish that throws uncanny pls. I've gotten so many followers rn and it's got me sorta on guard because there's been bait bots unleashed, but controlled to a extent thanks to lists, and there some slipping thru cracks that make me go "not today bot!" When it might be a human... being advertisement based in their bio...just. please don't say let's go build a world together. It feels corpo...

Dont post art on bluesky they own every image posted on their website to do as they please its worse then x

2:50 i can agree. my growth has also been relatively quick on there, which was surprising. especially right now, since i find trying to post my art to twt, or insta, has me suffering. i uploaded 2 art pieces to both twt and bsky the same day on a brand new account, and the one on bsky got 7 likes, the one on twt got 0. honestly, after trying and failing to start an art account for years now, it feels like a breath of fresh air.

I appreciate the background music selection for this 😌🎶

I'm still pretty skeptical on whether BSKY will last but so far it's been going pretty good in terms of people using it and seeing it mentioned. There have been so many sites in the past 5 years that tried to be the new art twitter and they all seemed to have crashed and burned out but BlueSky has managed to stay in the know for good while now and I think that's pretty promising. I joined there about a week or two after it was created and in those early days it was definitely not very active but it seems to have really picked up some traction since that time. As far as posting my own art on there, I have noticed that it does get a tiny bit more engagement there than it does on Twitter. Not big numbers or anything like that but certainly a tiny bit more than what I normally get on Twitter minus a fan art that blows up at random. I think the atmosphere on there is pretty nice and it doesn't feel like as much of a black hole void like Twitter tends to feel like. I've been on art social media since 2005 during the DeviantART days (I'm in my 30s for context) and I've seen many sites come and go but something that I really hope to see again one day is a new art site similar to DeivantART with no algorithms and has it's own dedicated matching forum and groups feature. DeviantART isn't really dead per say, defintiely not as bussling as it was back in the 2000s and early 2010s but still kicking. The problem though is that it has gotten swamped with AI images and even though I don't see too many of it in my feed, I can only image what it might be like for newcomers on that site so it would be great to see a new DeivnatART-esq site. But for now BlueSky is okay but my skepticism will always be there.

site needs a lot of help still. keep seeing political stuff on my feed even though I don't follow or click political posts

i made my account and within like my first day posting only one skeets, i had like 15 random followers. one of which actually conversed with me. you just feel more seen or like you have a shot at getting your voice heard. and it's like twitter in that fleeting moment it didn't feel like a hellsite. it's genuinely so nice. new and different, but really nice. i just wish i could follow tags instead of tabs/ lists, but maybe that will come along eventually.

5:43 I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO NOT HAVE AI??? honestly im so scared that my art is going to get stolen, that i dont even want to post my art anymore😢❤

I downloaded Blue Sky back in November and I have to admit I did get discouraged pretty early on because I WAS paying attention to numbers (which I have a bad habit of doing but I'm working on it) and anytime I posted or commented on other peoples stuff it kind of felt like I was throwing words and art into the void. I think part of the discouragement also came from lack of interaction which I had been hoping for since everyone had been saying it was good for that. But if you're just there to lurk and vibe its definately perfect for that!

Bluesky’s like a 7/10 for me. The biggest gripe I have with it, though, is that it’s had a bot problem for a while now. It got to the point where I had to close my DMs because I kept getting those damned commission bots. And I highly suspect most of my followers are bots; but that’s probably my anxiety talking, haha.

I learned about and joined BlueSky once i learned about the changes in Twitter's block feature, like "What do you mean you can't prevent blocked people from seeing your posts anymore?!?" The moment i heard about the website, i flocked over real quick and HOLY SSSS! OPEN SOURCE? NO ALGORITHM? CUSTOMIZABILITY OF FEEDS? AND THE ART COMMUNITY ACTUALLY FEELING LIKE A COMMUNITY? Sign me the FFFF up! Yeah, i'm active there, and trying as an artist. (Currently in my esperimenting phase, seeking chaotic yet dynamic results like those anime-rage scenes)

As an amateur traditional artist I have been using bluesky to just post whatever I feel like; fanart , ocs, creatures etc. I have been treating it more as a diary of progress and learning how to handle my social media account. Though I haven't much idea what platforms are good for someone who draws various kinds of subjects.

Maybe I’m not approaching BlueSky the right way, but I have noticed it’s FAR MORE DIFFICULT to see any notable progress or feedback on that site versus Twitter. Even fanart pieces, which would usually gain 400+ likes on Twitter get only 1-2 likes and no exposure on that site for me. I’m not sure what I need to do differently on Bsky to have my art not get buried immediately.

ughhhhh i feel like i cant find a good platform that i like to post my art on

Lucky for you that you were able to grow well there. I was able to get a hundred followers but the problem is that not so many people actually look at my posts.

Bluesky and Threads are sites that have very similar relevancy cycles.

thank you for the info! i was interested in moving to bluesky, but hearing that it allows ai scrapers... (￣o￣) yeah... is there actually no mainstream social media left that doesnt do this?

Clicked for the info, subscribed for the art, thanks for the video it was super informative for me!

Thank yo uso much for the video, bluesky really feels like twitter without all the drama and toxicity, we needed those more peaceful times

THIS GOT RECOMMENDED TO ME I WIN HI VOLT

so theres essentially a way to "private" the account, and i believe its in the settings where you can turn off the option for logged out users to not see your account. however if your using those bluesky plugins that are logged out by default then thats when things will get iffy

Hi, I am trying Bluesky but only now I'm learning about the AI issue. Another choice on where to post I was considering is Cara, did you try it? Do you think it's safer for artists?

How do i join a art share on bluesky?