The Anti-Censorship DNP Pledge

Brass Beau

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Right, so, from what I’ve seen around the forums it looks like things are gonna revert to how they were with some heavier focus on community relations. I expect Aryanne, and several other characters inspired by political movements, to be reported for a couple of weeks, assuming the policies stay as they are/were. Most should be responded with “filter it” but it’s hard to say. My best guess is things should return to normal in a month or two. I expect a shit storm when the US elections come up this November, though. I have no guesses as to how long it will take for artists to retract the DNP requests. Things are gonna be rough for the rest of the year, not that they haven’t been up to this point.
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IF freedom of artistic expression prevails…
 
We all saw how fast the first flip-flop came (5 hours) so I’m definitely giving it a little to see how things fare and if there’s any signs of a third flip-flop. If I like what I see (with Raptorshy in charge, I have a bit more hope than before), then I’ll retract my DNP and urge others to consider the same.
 
Regardless of what happens, having alternate boorus crop up is a great idea, because stagnation and overconfidence is one of the reasons why we got into this mess in the first place. 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.
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Agreed that alternate boorus could learn a lot from what happened but the technical catch-up is going to take a while. I took a look at rainbooru and it really needs some polish. While I’d like to see derpibooru stay a hub of MLP art, I think these alternate boorus would be good for implementing experimental changes and host smaller sub-communities.
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Yeah, Derpibooru is arguably the biggest pony art site we’ve got and that unfortunately leads to the staff having some leverage over the fanbase at large, these alternate booru sites should be supported as much as we can.
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It might be worth considering for some enterprising fan to make an alternate booru for the opposite reason too: A “safe” booru for MLP. No racism, no grimdark, no foalcon, etc. Maybe consensual porn of adult characters is still okay, I dunno.
 
I feel like more options being available is a good thing, and every person gets a community that suits their comfort levels.
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Ooh, nice. I dig it. It’s not specifically for MLP but it’s got MLP content.
 
I’m not leaving Derpi or anything myself - I just filter the nazi stuff out. But I love that there’s already essentially an option delivers what I think many of us from the other thread would like. I’ll pass this along as a recommendation in the anti-nazi pledge thread, and I think I’ll sign up there myself too!
 
EDIT: I’ll link to FurBooru directly here in case anyone else wants in. I’m excited for it!
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Well Derpibooru is open source, anyone can just spin up their own instance of it.
 
In general I’m not too big a fan of just making clones of the site though since they are kinda bound to fail unless they are significantly different and have something unique to offer, so not sure if just having slightly more permissive rules is really going to be enough to convince people to move over to a site like that when Derpi just has so much more existing content and community backing for stuff. I kinda have some ideas for how to fix that problem once and for all but radical new technologies also don’t tend to take off too much if their UX is kinda trash which is inevitable, so who knows if anyone would want to invest in that either.
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Philomena (DBs code and framework) is open source, so someone with the technical coding know-how can theorherically do it
 
Philomena is apparently super buggy and complicated to implement due to its lack of documentation (from what I’ve heard), so it’s easier said than done
 
 
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I don’t know if I can tell anyone this yet, but Ponybooru is technically live, but in beta. It uses Philomena, so it’s basically Derpiboorus UI and tagging system. It’s really good from what I’m seeing. Just waiting on the go-ahead, myself.
 
 
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A friend of mine is setting up a booru that will have its own little niche. Keep your eyes open. Rainbooru is deliberately as simple and bare-bones as possible, the one I’m talking about will be comprehensive (with new features!) but also have minimal rules.
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There’s definitely a place for more than one Booru in this fandom to co-exist
 
There used to be a few, though none stood above Derpi. For example:  
https://web.archive.org/web/20140208000908/http://octabooru.net/browse  
was suppose to be the more /mlp/ centric booru. I’m not even sure I even visited this place. I think they actually did try to do some cool stuff early on (like auto tagging of characters with AI if I recall).  
https://web.archive.org/web/20180203091146/http://twentypercentcooler.net/  
Dedicated pony booru launched by e621, I think it had some use for awhile.
 
Both these and others attempts unless they were focused on a niche topic were usually abandoned as Derpi’s lax content policies, independently developed software, and filter system made it superior to catering to most folks across all walks of the fandom. Though now its clearly evident that we should have at least a back up or two.
 
 
@GregUniverse  
There actually is one but it doesn’t have much of a community.  
http://bronibooru.com/  
Associated with the roundstable forum community and former news site. I think they have an upload bot that uploads from a list of artist.
 
 
@Brass Beau  
I think these alternate boorus would be good for implementing experimental changes and host smaller sub-communities.
 
Certainly. Additionally I would hope that one of the boorus would take up the mantle of safeguarding the old fandom culture in the event that the others fall to either censor happy wokism or /pol/.
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