The Anti-Censorship DNP Pledge

doloresbridge
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There’s never been a giant situation like this before, which makes me think that now is the best time for competition where other places failed
 
Totally agree. I was just pointing out some of the ones in the past.
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@Datte-Before-Dawn  
Well like I said I don’t think this is /that/ big a deal. It’s a big deal to those who care but I’d imagine most people using this site don’t even know what is going on and don’t care. Plus it’s only going to affect like 0.1% of images if that so it’s kinda not a huge reason to have to manage yourself on two sites at once.
Background Pony #47D6
There’s definitely a place for more than one Booru in this fandom to co-exist…all that remains to be seen is if outside actors are willing to co-exist in the first place whatever happens.
 
IMO, only if they have a very narrow purpose (eg. fluffybooru) - I visit derpibooru because it’s the closest thing to a one-stop-see-all-pony-art destination that exists. If a booru isn’t filling that role, people might as well go back to having a bookmark folder full of deviantart profiles, tumblrs, etc. (bleh)
Background Pony #A8BB
@Datte-Before-Dawn  
No, it’s not public yet which is why I’m being vague. There’s an awful lot of competition already but I think there’s some room left. Considering that all this was caused by staff weakness winning necessitates having an owner who won’t bend to outrage culture.
Brass Beau

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I’d like to clarify that while the idea of alternative boorus would be good for the MLP community, I’d like for their main focus to be on experimental features and community management. I believe that subdividing the fandom into different ideological groups would be more harmful than helpful. I’d like for these alternate boorus to be more a series of sister sites sharing technology and cultivating a peaceful coexistence with these differing sub groups.
NamelessNP
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I’m wary of alternatives sites popping up currently
 
In my experience sites that are born out of drama tend to be short lived and die off (noting how none of the tumblr copies coming from the NSFW ban ever took off)
doloresbridge
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@Brass Beau  
That is my concern in a way… If we leave do to censorship I want the new site to be based on the values of the community as is. Various levels of shitposting, edgy, vulgar and wholesome that you can filter to your heart’s content. Some things in this fandom couldn’t exist on either end of an ideologically polarized one.
Background Pony #322A
I didn’t know this was going on until the alignment chart was posted. Is nowhere safe from this cancel culture nonsense?
 
|| Also it would be hilarious that a certain wannabe ringleader of the outraged censorship side hypocritically mocked REAL people getting brutally attacked by a mob if it weren’t so disgusting.||
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@NamelessNP  
That’s why I think derpibooru should extend a hand to these startups. These satellite boorus could be used to better interact with the MLP community as a whole and get more people involved in the forums. Sure, most users may not want to be involved but this type of thing should not be happening in the background with a community this large. Helping the community communicate, not only with mods or those with similar ideologies, but everyone in the fandom is the best course of action right now.
Background Pony #46D6
@NamelessNP  
To be fair, Pillowfort’s been building itself up, and it’s going to come out of beta soon.
 
I want that platform to succeed since the staff are trying to listen in order to improve the sight, and it doesn’t have the BS that dragged Tumblr down.
Archive_Anon
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@Background Pony #A8BB  
There’s definitely some competition and there’s always room for more. There shouldn’t be a “winner” this time. There should be at least 2 competing boorus at all times, preferably more.
 
Failing to maintain at the very least, 2 separate boorus, can and likely will in the long run result in this exact type of situation happening again. (By which I mean something, anything really, causing an issue which could put it at threat). There can’t be a proper “monopoly” so to speak with these types of things any more.
Brass Beau

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@Archive_Anon  
Competing boards would likely cause trouble. The divide this board is in is a part of the problem. The boards should attempt some level of interconnectivity and cooperation to build a divergent ecosystem. Something as simple (for a very particular definition of “simple”) as being able to use the same account across boards could do wonders to building a sense of trust and community.
Digiqrow
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@Brass Beau  
>Account sharing  
I… don’t really trust having multiple sites with the same credentials. Then one site relying on the other can basically force it to become a proxy.
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@Boxless  
Well, the macro problem isn’t so much the site as the fragmentation of the community. Our only uniting factor is our love of the show. Somehow we need to find a way, as a community, to overcome our differences, reinforce that fact, and support each other’s artistic endeavors. If we allow ourselves to continue to fragment the community and, in turn, divide the artistic works across multiple domains, we will devolve into tribalism, much like the US political system has.  
@Digiqrow  
True, that may not be the most elegant solution, but some way of allowing these boards to interact with one another, to cultivate that sense of community, should be considered.
Boxless

stop using Derpi lmao
@Brass Beau  
Unfortunately, some of the ‘community’ wants to purge all other elements that do not immediately agree with them, and failing that, scorched earth what they cannot have.
 
 
Site jumping is a fandom tradition anyways.
Armagedonus
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Site jumping is a fandom tradition anyways.
 
For many years poni community developed some sort of “status quo” - the ONLY “site hopping” that occured was with the whole “anthro foalcon” with people jumping from pixiv to baraag and others, due to japanese censorship shit (the whole “black bar” annoyance you see plastered over the genitals)
 
It is a shame that BLM was the tipping stone that fragmented bronykind :(
TheQuietMan
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@NamelessNP  
Pillowfort and I think newtumbl are doing well. It’s probably just the hosting cost problem since that is the cost of freedom. Every trusted advertiser are prudes and every porn advertiser are shady and untrustworthy. So we need money for complete neutrality. And I really dislike that idea.
Brass Beau

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@Boxless  
True, there will always be loud extremists in any community. This is something that will not be fixed easily or quickly. That said, the problem is known and steps can be taken in this early transition stage to slowly cultivate and work towards that better community. If we can come together to let mods, admins and site hosts know that it is something desirable and achievable, we can form a plan of action and build towards it. If we can form a clear mission statement and brainstorm some ideas, it could be presented to those with the power and authority to act on it. With multiple smaller boorus, experimental features, especially cross site features, could be developed and tested. Derpibooru likely isn’t going to die, but within a few years I would expect this bubble of various boards to pop and shrink down to at most three boards. It’d be like operating system developement. One is a stable and long term while the others are more like snapshots or betas. And with a heavy focus on rebuilding trust between the mods and regular users, the site could evolve into a better version of itself.
TheQuietMan
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@Background Pony #46D6  
I think the problem lies with corporations. They are big and need to maintain a good reputation. And as such are the biggest prudes. They own you, they will censor you and delete you. Any site selling off to them are sellouts.
 
 
@Archive_Anon  
Again, they can be sister sites, no need to completely segregate. Segregation is indeed bad and divides us more. But what choice when prudish zealots don’t listen. They’re honestly not bad, but they’re definitely not open-minded either. That’s the problem with not only groups but society.
 
 
@Armagedonus  
Ah yes, the most annoying censorship that’ll never change until who knows when. I do see uncensored genitals sometimes and they’ll either get deleted in the future or stay because user does not live in Japan. If it is the latter which I highly doubt, then I’m pretty sure non-japanese users will have to adhere it too. It’s good to experiment and hey at Japan does not censor ideas, just…. that.
Tirek
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It doesn’t matter what decision will be made because one group, anti-nazi or anti-censorship, will leave. You’re all acting like children that are too stupid to use filters: “Mimimi, they have rasism and instead of using filters I will not use the biggest pony site anymore and remove all my art, mimimi”
 
Still funny how gore and guro are allowed (even against children) while lolicon/shotacon is forbidden. So yeah, we already have censorship.
 
And to show that I’m not one of those drama queens or trolls, that hide behing the “anonymous” function, I won’t use it for this post
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