Twitter or Bluesky? Where to post your art in 2025

[@Sayuui]

Please help me reach my 10k goal on bluesky! bsky.app/profile/sayuui.bsky.social

[@bakedmochi]

as a small artist, bluesky feels a lot better just because for the most part, you're art actually feels seen and it also feels easier to grow. on the other hand, a majority of my mutuals just use it as another place to post their art and don't really use it as a social media. so it lacks a "community" feel in my case. but i am aware that most people are not experiencing this

[@Sayuui]

@@bakedmochi some of my friends have been growing there since the very beginning! I would advise maybe finding some of these artist friends that might not necessarily be on bluesky, but are willing to join in the future, I think.

[@bakedmochi]

@@Sayuui a majority of my friends are already on bluesky, they just mainly use twitter still and aren't on bluesky often

[@bakedmochi]

update (this is from what i experienced as a user on bsky): now that there are way more users on the platform, using hashtags doesn't really work unless you're already a big artist (for the most part. i think you're going to have to play it similar to old instagram where you had to choose tags that weren't popular to see any effect from it) things are heavily reliant on reposts from other people. that is where most of your growth and exposure will come from. most "mutuals" that i made do not ineract back on my posts at all. this reemphasizes my point in my original comment that there is no "community" feel. if you don't have people who genuinely want to grow WITH you, or a community that engages with your art, it's gonna feel like you're just posting into the void. since there is no algorithm, all you can do is spam repost it to hopefully get eyes on your art. timing of your post is also crucial. however, if you can find a supportive community then bsky is great! i just wanted to highlight some of the biggest negatives i've experienced because i don't want people to go in thinking that it's some magical social media where everything is good. also there is a opt out of grok ai on twitter. because if this, quite a few people have stopped using bsky completely and just use twitter

[@randommemeboi9502]

can tell, i have 30 on twatter but 800 on bsky

[@mangafanzinatic]

I love bluesky right now as the community feels so fresh and excited to share their art! My twitter feed is 80% ads 💀

[@Sayuui]

@@mangafanzinatic my Twitter feed is so full of incredible and successful artists all the time it gives me a sense of detachment ☠️

[@brandonvortex995]

haha same here

[@shijian69]

Same bro

[@sorryyourenotawinner2506]

you based

[@starry-p]

*ARTISTS LISTEN!!* I watched this while signed out and signed in to finally comment. *Artists Listen UP!* If you are going to use Bluesky, keep in mind you ( as of right now) CANNOT private your bluesky account. This is important if you ever got stalked or harassed. Not only that but it’s VERY easy for A/I bro scalpers to steal your art. As A/I is on blueSky as well. IF YOU, post to blue sky. Please glaze or nightshade your art. Protect your art!

[@dood_del5481]

it's me and my 6 followers in blue sky against the world LOL blue sky is looking pretty great right now

[@Znegil]

I tried Bluesky today after I saw this video (not really because Art, but for being NOT Twitter). It was so fun to open an app like this and don't see a lot of stuff that makes you directly close the app again 😅 I deleted my Twitter App afterwards.

[@kooki4786]

I just checked out Bluesky! Currently I've started sharing my digital art online, trying to grow my social media pages. The current try on twitter, I have 7 likes ( all 3 of my posts together ) that came over the past few days. Today I just joined Bluesky, and shared the same posts there and got like 5 likes in less than 30 minutes of being on there! I will now keep posting on both and hope for the best :D

[@regalx1]

The community on Bluesky is more chill. This is such a relief because everything else is on fire at the moment.

[@DesoRay]

I'm just tired of jumping from platform to platform gaining little to know engagement or jumping in a full waiting line of people.. just to find out that in reality as long as you're an acclaimed artist from 2014 you'll always be on top of artists that have under 500 followers no matter the platform It's just how it goes otherwise how else are these platforms gonna regulate algorithms when there's over a million artists trying to go viral At some point it's just not worth it. Putting your art out there for ai to sooner or later train because that platform decided to embrace it

[@macaroll]

Tbh, I also want to hop onto Bluesky, but having lots of social media/art pages is mentally tiring, at least for me. That and jumping from platform to platform and re-uploading my art over the years has really gotten tiresome. Good luck to those who are on Bluesky or will try Bluesky! I hope it will be better than Twitter!

[@Sayuui]

I`d say discard twitter and start posting there. You're not missing anything by doing that.

[@macaroll]

@Sayuui Yes, I've already discarded Twitter! I'll try and thank you for the encouragement! ✨💖

[@PenhasDonte]

im lowkey praying and preying on twitter's downfall at any cost so any type of rival advertising is great

[@barbarasla6577]

People migrated to Bluesky because Twitter was banned in Brazil

[@Leinen-ld5pt]

As far as i can remember, the reason why their government did it is because Twitter was infested with misinformation and conspiracies from right wing propagandas that Elon was purposely boosting engagement, they are scared that thier youth's mind could get poisoned with hate, thats why they banned it

[@Nogardtist]

idk as a ghost artist all platforms are bad

[@kickbeez642]

Feel like bluesky is just gonna go the same route eventually. Gather many people then sell out to big corpos and AI. Losing Deviant Art was probably one of the worst things to happen to artists.

[@MistyKathrine]

Bluesky is a public benefit company, so it's structure is different.

[@Sayuui]

Let's remember follower portability I explained in my 1st bluesky video!

[@toxic8471]

to be honest, bluesky doesn't seem so good when at least 1 person sees my drawings on Twitter and reacts, no one sees my drawings in bluesky....it's very strange and any motivation to do something with it just disappears

[@Sayuui]

@@toxic8471 I'll keep that in mind. I have another Twitter growth video in the works

[@OnionCurry]

if you have no audience no website will help that.

[@feryisthis]

USE TAGS!!!! tags help on blue sky but not on twitter! i got 50 likes on a drawing that took 3 minutes because i used tags!

[@klbn6]

i dont share my art publicly, in fact i paint them on the walls of my villa previously owned by a deaf person

[@KodokunaSenshi]

thats sick dude

[@Utrilus]

I've seen just as much negativity on bluesky as on twitter. They seem the same.

[@KodokunaSenshi]

Real, and my first follower on Bluesky was a bot😭 I'm still giving it a try but I might stick to Insta and Tumblr

[@randommemeboi9502]

at least u can block them

[@Utrilus]

@@randommemeboi9502 You can block on both platforms just fine.

[@Tsmh_128]

Alright, so im gonna post my art in Bluesky. This is a great opportunity (In Twitter i cant get more than 10 views)

[@VoidTela]

On twitter I had a hard time reaching 20 likes with fanart, while on bluesky I reached 80 likes in a few days with a original piece just because I used the right hashtags. That is due the customizable feed making your art show up for the right public.

[@VoidTela]

@itsmaovinnehere well lets say you're drawing fanart for a game or anime, you'll want to use the proper hashtags associated with that. Now if you're drawing a original character, personally I'm a vtuber so I use the #vtuber tag, as well as #VArtist and #OC. The trick is not to use too many tags so that people don't think you're a bot or something

[@theironefe7686]

I honestly don't feel like posting on anything anymore. I am too streesed out at this point

[@-w-Trix]

Absolutely In loOOOVE with bluesky right now ❤❤

[@Sayuui]

@@-w-Trix hope it never changes! ❤️

[@tsukinaniL]

this inspired me to actually make a bsky account, great video!

[@nofefex]

I made a bluesky, is full of elon musk hate posts, and they are going to sell everybodys art as soon they can.

[@sweets_Cat88]

I joined Blue sky. Slowly I’m following back those I followed on twitter. But I have no followers on blue sky… yet. I’m slowly working my way to be noticed on blue sky

[@Sayuui]

Some people haven't moved there completely yet! I'd advise following artist who have a lot of followers, watch if they repost and making them fanart to grow.

[@kyubunnie427]

Didn't know about art shield ;0 gonna check that out thank youu !! 🙏

[@Slawa_Saporogez]

I never have had Twitter for a simple reason, it is a media with a social component for the most part. Everything else is a consequence from it. On the other hand BlueSky is at least right now a social media for artists by artists unlike Twitter. This is how I made a decision which one to pick.

[@ennuiwolf]

I mean, a true platform for artists by artists already exists. It's Cara. BlueSky is a Twitter alternative where the general public can interact with artists. (To clarify, I think Bluesky is a cool place. I have both, and am more active of BlueSky at the moment due to more engagement from both artist and non-artist accounts. It's helpful for artists to have both, one to serve as a portfolio and another as regular social media)

[@calebpribyl5152]

Honestly as long as blue sky isn’t as obnoxious as twitter then sign me up! Seriously twitter has like two jokes in the website…! Swearing and sex jokes!

[@Sayuui]

I'm not comfortable with those types of jokes either. And I feel like if you don't do them you're excluded and will never grow.

[@neykoucing]

The only thing it doesn't have right now is GIF posting !, since i mostly make looping pixel sprites, i've had to turn them into a webm format before posting. (but at least i dont have to deal with twitter's jank frame theft that it likes doing to the end of my animations !)

[@SB2749]

Wait, you can convert animated .gifs into .webms to post on Bluesky and keep their animation? EDIT: Oh, it's a video format, of course you can lol

[@neykoucing]

@@SB2749 yeah ! though id rather it be gif friendly one day, this exact reason is why i kept from posting on insta

[@goblinsuburb]

how is bluesky for getting commissions? i’ve noticed that while the community on bsky is definitely great, it tends to be mostly other artists, so i would think that there is a lot more supply than demand when it comes to commissions. have you found this to be the case?

[@Sayuui]

@@goblinsuburb Well, I definitely got one commission from there. That's all I can say for my case.

[@goblinsuburb]

@ thanks! i’ve just started posting so ik it’ll be a while before commissions started being an option, but honestly i’ll do anything to avoid the hell hole that twitter is

[@BeeLy1011]

I'll support any and all bluesky videos, it's so much nicer

[@bananadoesarts]

People Forgot about Cara

[@Sayuui]

@@bananadoesarts Cara is more like a replacement to artstation than a social media platform

[@janhehrcomposes]

Hey Sayuui, thank you for the advice! I'm currently considering switching fully from twitter over to bluesky, but I've been a little hesitant. After your video, I think I'm ready to commit to bluesky 100%.

[@Sayuui]

@@janhehrcomposes I'm glad to hear I helped! Hopefully bluesky will grow as much as Twitter and even beyond in the future!

[@xXstevilleXx]

Art on BlueSky is not AI slop, it is truly fascinating how void of it, Bsky truly is... as for the art, refreshing, this, I don't use X but I can certainly attest to this as being true. Lots of what we lost is to be found there, at least that is true. Lost a part of myself when I did still use other platforms. But when I gave Bluesky a shot I realized in knowing what I have lost, I know what I have left and was good enough as it motivated me, maybe hope, but in what I do I will play my part. Great vid and amazing art

[@lovkarts]

Twitter really is a sinking ship rn, so it's much better to rebuild everything on Bluesky as soon as possible :v

[@Sayuui]

@@lovkarts I have no doubt Twitter is dying either, but I'm always so reluctant to leave it :v I'm tempted to keep growing there, but every time Elon Musk makes a bad decision, there's some irreversible damage done

[@isekaiednatsu9822]

Ima boutta become a new user cus im bout tired of twitters bad system of engagements

[@imkuelllgremlin]

my one reason im not 100% comitted to bluesky is the feed, a lot of artists i love arnt on there and idk if theyll be moving. but i also find the feel has a lot of low quality stuff pushed to me, like, i dont care about ur political opinion on the newspaper brad shut it.

[@Sayuui]

@imkuelllgremlin bluesky is different from Twitter. What Twitter does is it takes the best content in a certain subject and serves it to people's feeds. So because of that, there is no content variety and everyone is kinda served the same things. People need to understand the bluesky is different. You need to curate your timeline yourself and that is not a bad thing. For the first time in years, you're actually in control and not being served always the same BS. But I feel like people have become too lazy to understand that.

[@vanessabarraza5983]

I’m just scared of insta and the ai training :(

[@Sayuui]

Use nightshade if you can. *wink*

[@EyeSplittingCandy]

It should be a crime to watch this video and not hit the like button

[@hotel_arcadia]

The answer is neither. Go Newgrounds!

[@NOOB-ps8km]

Soldid and nuanced advice as always.

[@sidhe3303]

So it's good for getting commissions through whereas twitter I'd get a lot of bots responding and had to switch to artistsandclients. Would also be good for my lets play channel/eventual v-tuber account.

[@Fancy-Arts_Crafts]

bluesky is twitter if it was managed my the right person

[@cookiecreep9204]

Given that the people that were constantly attacking artists are moving to it... No thanks.

[@Sayuui]

@@cookiecreep9204 People who attack artists are everywhere

[@cookiecreep9204]

@@Sayuui Maybe, but not everywhere so visciously as the exact people now en masse moving there.

[@Leinen-ld5pt]

​@@cookiecreep9204theres a feature that bans these people from engaging with you :) Also your logic sucks

[@Boberjai]

I’d used blue sky if they didn’t show so much inappropriate content. I literally selected art and pets as interests and they shown so much inappropriate content even though I did not ask. These were r34 pieces.

[@Sayuui]

@@Boberjai it's definitely worth looking up a filter, since there's are so many bluesky filters you can use

[@MimiMin]

That's weird, when I tried bluesky recently a lot of image posts were "hidden" because bluesky apparently automatically flagged them. It's a setting I didn't even know I had on. When I switched it to the setting that hides them but lets me unhide if I want to, the posts that were hidden weren't even really nsfw. Maybe it's a newer setting? I think you should look into it!

[@AlphaGaming-u6c]

the challenge is find like 250 followed blue sky accounts

[@kaicastle.]

Wow, never heard of artshield, how safe is it? Thanks for sharing btw!

[@Sayuui]

@@kaicastle. Seems safe. It's another service from artists to artists

[@cryingwatercolours]

people still want twitter advice bc blue sky literally doesn’t protect your art from external data scraping for ai, so moving seems pointless (you mentioned that later) also glaze has been shown not to work/to train ai to just avoid glazed art rather than being poisoned. furthermore systems like glaze use the same ai as image generators, affecting the environment, reducing its pros just to defending your art.

[@Sayuui]

@@cryingwatercolours Glaze does what it promises - to protect your art style. That's what it does. If you want to fight back, you can use nightshade

[@cryingwatercolours]

@ yes but they still use ai to do it, meaning if you use it, you’re contributing. there’s no real win.

[@Sayuui]

@@cryingwatercolours You have to learn to discern Ai from generative AI = big corpos that want to milk from us from the AI other people are creating to allow us to fight back. AI has been around for a long time, not just with dall-e, stable diffusion or grok. Video editing softwares have functions that are AI and have been implemented much sooner than any generative AI has appeared. You'll be able to find that information with a Google or KZbin search.

[@cryingwatercolours]

@@Sayuui I don’t understand… I’m only referring to generative ai…

[@cryingwatercolours]

@@Sayuui people always tell me this, I know the difference. glazes use generative ai. generative ai models learn from poisoned works by nightshade.

[@Honey_Storm]

art shield is very interesting 🤔

[@OnionCurry]

glaze is the only one that is made by experts in the field

[@kaicastle.]

@@OnionCurry does it mean artshield is not safe?

[@bander-Coolb]

Bluesky is really laggy

[@Sayuui]

@@bander-Coolb it's only laggy when there's a peak of users

[@arien6882]

As much as I enjoy bluesky, its hard to use on my ipad since their UI isnt suited for ipad format. But on the sidenote, for some reason twt algo is pretty decent for my account so its pretty tough to fully commit on bluesky.

[@lxsgl]

Does Bluesky allow slightly or uncensored nsfw art? Lol. If not, I can't go upload something there without censoring most part of the image of my artworks.

[@Sayuui]

@@lxsgl it censors for you

[@SB2749]

Yeah it does. It has content labels you (or the Bsky moderation) can apply to your posts, so the people who chose to see that kind of content will be able to see it

[@nathh1998]

Do you have any tips in image compression in bluesky? I rlly struggle with image quality and its rly driving me crazy lmao i usually use 2000px

[@Sayuui]

I'm not the best to talk about this, since I use low resolution PNG (most times less than 1500px) and most times I post I use either glaze or artshield. i'd advise posting lower resolution. I've seen my art stolen and posted in shady websites in the past.

[@nathh1998]

@@Sayuui thanks!

[@e_n_d24]

I just thought blue sky was another name for twitter 😭. Thanks for the video wouldn’t have known it was an entire different app

[@Absbor]

cool video

[@AlphaGaming-u6c]

i privated my twitter account, so bots stop following, plus i dont post that much in there

[@barbibaterfrai4925]

Loved the vid, really great tips and also loved ur art. Might try it even though all this social part is a real struggle for me in all aspects lol 😭😭. Just found out about your channel and I'm gonna watch every video you posted so far.🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️

[@moji_mojyo]

um i dont use twitter bc its brainrot and full of weirdos is bluesky the same 😰😰

[@SATANOSTheGallantHedgehog]

If bluesky becomes less of a liberal hivemind echo chamber it'd be even better

[@LadyBits2023]

as bad as Twitter is blue, sky is literally like sticking your head through the window of an insane asylum...

[@xibalbalon8668]

If bluesky pisses off people who say "liberal hivemind echo chamber", I might join it

[@Leinen-ld5pt]

I'd rather join a liberal hivemind than get my daily news(conspiracies) and misinformation from elon everytime i open twitter. Literally, twitter is a right wing infested park, where people who hate people come together and spread lies

[@lordwarryl5712]

Thank you for the advice, i was 2nd guessing making blue sky account. I will do it now. Also, Cute avatar

[@triggerfairy4070]

The Bluesky has reportedly have more CP though.

[@Sayuui]

@@triggerfairy4070 Didn't know that. Really messed up. Hope they get rid of that soon.

[@strawby]

I use neither lol

[@bander-Coolb]

Honestly I already lost hope in all these platforms will harvest our art for ai

[@Sayuui]

At least it's not on bluesky's side. Artshield should do the trick, let's just hope bluesky doesn't get sold to some billionaire.

[@EllzinaRose]

I love Bluesky so much even as a small creator

[@Cleanawayuttp]

As a amateur artist im definitely moving to bluesky

[@backupchannel8865]

Meh.

[@SiresOrbwits-oi8mz]

Make it simple for everyone. If you want to receive hate threats because you colored someone's skin with the wrong shade, join bluesky.

[@Jami_rainstorm]

That’ll happen on Twitter too lol

[@xvi7307]

Meh

[@DancerSamChika]

Ur 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

[@sneakymitchell7802]

You guys realize third party AI can hard data swipe your pages with no log in required?

[@Sayuui]

@sneakymitchell7802 You realize you can turn that off and make your content available only to people who log in?

[@sneakymitchell7802]

@ if people don’t realize lol. I don’t like it to begin with. I believe it be more bots on there than X in coming months. With no advertising and money the company will have to run ads like other platforms

[@znyo0217]

Ha Ha Ha Ha