c-t-elder

Deviantart's team posted this journal yesterday about Web3, which reads as their way of softly breaking into blockchain for this website. Despite no official announcement, several of my peers and friends have deleted their galleries of works that are 15+ years old because of this. And honestly, I'm not far behind if DA ever officially shifts to Web3. Why? So far "web3" has been fraught with fraud, theft, abuse, and used to fund harmful extremist movements. It is absolutely NOT the direction I want to see DeviantArt go. It would be a massive disappointment to see this platform do anything with blockchain, other than protect it's users from it's dangers. I wouldn't feel safe posting my work here, and would no longer want to support DA. I want to stay here very badly. I haven't minded the many awkward updates, and even stayed after DA abolished the category system, which used to be extremely helpful. Thus I'm currently I'm on the fence since DA hasn't made any official