If only every third NSFW-artist from tumble migrated into the fediverse, the audience would follow and maybe even lead some of the other artists to join as well.
The dedicated fanbase, sure. But not people who don't actively seek out sexy raccoons, although they might read the comic if it shows up in their feed when they're bored. So not being able to post on popular platforms costs them a customer-acquisition funnel.
The usual solution is to put conspicuous censorship markers over everything the platform finds objectionable and then let the audience know where they can buy the uncensored edition.
That's my thought too. As the comic illustrates, artists have had to community hop before. It feels like there's some potential for a good match, despite occasional technical challenges like instances winding down.
That happened for Twitter and then defederation happened. The benevolent dictator of Mastodon did NOT stand up for freedom of speech for art, and that headshot Mastodon dead.
Same almost happened with Bluesky later at much smaller scale due to skepticism and again moderation happened.
I literally can't make out what you're trying to allude to.
Mastodon isn't the entirety of the Fediverse and is decentralized, so artists can just start create their own instance if they really need to. But, there are actually already multiple art related instances, like mastodon.art.
> If only every third NSFW-artist from tumble migrated into the fediverse, the audience would follow
... and at least a fair few fediverse instances, especially ones based in Europe, would defederate with NSFW friendly instances in order to stay compliant with relevant laws.
Federation between instances is nice, but it's not necessary for the Fediverse to deliver freedom from Big Tech censorship.
Even in the extreme, theoretical case of full defederation you could just browse your communities by having a sperate account on every relevant server using a multi-account client.
It also reduces the impact if you lose an account: Since they are all single-purpose, you can easily create a new one replacing the one you lost.
Federation was supposed to be the key to ActivityPub revolution until Mastodon blew up and got flooded by legitimate non-Western contents. Then everything became "optional" and "discretion" became important. That also caused stats fetch from Misskey instances to mysteriously stop functioning, despite the main Misskey.io instance now having 4.25x more posts from just 15% less users compared to the official mastodon.social instance and therefore must be a very important part of the Fediverse.
(or 20x more statuses and 2.5x more users relative to baraag, FWIW)
Or you could use Nostr, where there is no “account” and you simply republish all your content at whatever relays allow it. If your identity is banned from one relay, people can still get your content from others, and the identity never needs to change.
If only every third NSFW-artist from tumble migrated into the fediverse, the audience would follow and maybe even lead some of the other artists to join as well.