Moving

Time to move! I started this blog in the obscurity of an unused subdomain, but now I’m turning it into a full personal site. This post is mostly to test whether the Fediverse connections are working correctly after the switch, but I’ll elaborate in an edit once I know everything is up and running.

Testing #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress.

Edit: Now that that’s over with, onto the more interesting stuff. Depending how you define ‘interesting’.

A few days ago I learned, through social media, about new and terrible social media things. In this case, it was the news that Meta was going to start training AI using all of the posts on their platforms. My response was to sigh, roll my eyes, stop staring at my phone, and finally go to sleep. My actual response, once rested and capable of processing this fresh pile of bullshit, was to delete all of the art I had posted on Instagram and remove all links to it from this site and my card.

I realize in the modern world that keeping art safe from data scraping is functionally impossible. Even with the noai headers on this site, or with heaps of post-processing ‘shields’ like Glaze, there will be bad actors and creative pirates who find their way around things. That said, I’m not going to volunteer every image I post to a megacorp for the opportunity to post somewhere I routinely get 2 or less likes. With how bad I am at social media, this blog will probably get about the same amount of exposure as my insta account used to, anyway.

But putting that rambling aside, we get to the point of this post – I spent a few hours over the past few days moving this site. I now officially own scyoni.com, cementing my claim to this meaningless username I invented when I was 16 and turning what was just a blog into a full personal website. There was nothing stopping me from doing it before Instagram revealed their evil plans, but deleting an entire gallery of my own artwork was the push I needed to actually do it.

Health permitting, I’ll be reposting all of my existing artwork here to form a gallery. This will largely be the same as what I have posted on DeviantArt, but in light of More Social Media Sites Being Terrible I figure having a backup I own is a good plan.

Yes, I am aware of the dA debacle around their initial plans to use AI, no, I didn’t remove my account over there. What can I say, I hate them less than I hate Facebook – and they did eventually opt to make the ai training optional and turn it off by default.

I now have something in the neighbourhood of Too Many images to upload here. Somehow.

I’ll make it work.