@BigBuggyBastage
As mentioned, that’s OK; ideally there’d be something that lets people know about it to avoid error or confusion.
@IWTCIPP
Tagging (and filtering by it) would be good, but I’m not sure there’s the bandwidth for that; as in, uploaders probably wouldn’t tag their own stuff with “negative tags”, so there’d need to be a fair number of active users going around curating each image. It would be an additional workload, albeit distributed on more people that just mods, and avoid “unnecessary deletions”, but could also fail if there aren’t enough people going at it.
It’s something worth revisiting down the line, though.
@Background Pony #BAD9
It’s my hope that this site will have a fair amount of activity and that people can come here when they want to get a wall of nice pics, well organized pics, without dealing with the terror that is CivitAI or DA’s search/filtering systems.
For comments, there is a possibilty (but not a guarantee) that we’ll be able to copy those over.
For funding, everything is separate from both derpibooru and furbooru (and those from eachother). It makes accounting for what’s using (and costing) what, but also gives some surety that if one site gets hit by an orbital laser, the others will be fine. Currently the cost of running this place is fairly low, definitely not a concern, so I’m happy to carry it for the foreseeable future. If costs increase (which would probably be a symptom of a Good Thing), then I’ll look into the same sort of stuff used on derpi (donations and non-network ads).
@FlatterDeN_AI
@Zerowinger
Unfortunately the subject of AI (particularly for art) has a lot of… “passion” in it. I can understand where a lot of traditional artists are coming from, I’ve been in several AI focused discords (and other places) where people boast and relish in artists losing commission money, going unemployed, being made obsolete, etc. While those people may be a minority, their hateful or cruel comments are what leaks out and gets heard by a lot of artists, that then assume
everyone that’s ever touched an AI generator is personally out to leave them destitute in the streets.
I really don’t know what to do about that; I wish people could just calm down and that assholes would go to therapy or deal with their anger some other way, but I’m just some guy.
We’d really hoped to have launched far far sooner and had more tech and policy issues sorted and tested out before now, but several major Real Life events got in the way that took priority. I’m hoping we can work out the kinks quickly and smoothly enough, but do ask for some patience while things are still in progress. If you have concerns or suggestions, we do want to hear them; there’s stuff we’ve already changed from it, and don’t see a reason to just set everything in stone now.