That's not actually true, where the problem comes in actually has to do with the sheer volume as well as USPS postal laws on shipping said items (it's a felony to ship "obscene" materials). The guy was originally pegged because the fact that he was importing the stuff through the USPS, they did charge him with more than that, but it had to do with the sheer volume of material he had collected (he had so much that he didn't even know what he had and actual child pornography was found).

When it comes to laws restricting freedom of speech I'm pretty up to snuff.

It's less a problem of respect and more a problem that they have no idea what they are doing and treat very serious issues very poorly and often times they can be asshats to the people that are the victims in a situation. They just plainly do not know how to run something that big and actively have avoided help that has been offered to them to fix many of the problems. It's a mess.

It's really not about world view to me, you can have a differing worldview that allows you to cope differently, but the problems are still objectively present. It's just about the ratio of people that are actually decent to the ratio of people that are nasty and destructive. It's much much worse on FA than just about any site I've been actively. It has a very seriously problematic community and the admins and users protect a lot of these problematic things rather than calling people out on them and try to remedy the problem.

The UI is very poorly designed and breaks many UX standards and conventions as well as not following important webstandards. It's manageable, yes, but that makes it no less broken or awful.

Weasyl is smoother on the only mobile devices I use, so that's just a YMMV type thing.

Weasyl actively combats security errors and works with people when they're brought up, something FA has never done, even when these failure's on FA's part are catastrophic enough that they technically break privacy and protection of information laws. There is not even and breath of comparison between how differently these things have worked between the two sites, and you don't judge programming by time anyway, you judge it by adherence computer engineering standards.

Weasyl isn't really somewhere I'd use as a measure for the communities in general, it's too quiet here. InkBunny however has pretty much been nothing but nice and the few instances that were problematic were handled very easily. On FA we're not talking about a few bad apples, we're talking about a uniformly problematic community that actively bullies individuals and often resorts to pressure and bullying tactics to shape portions of the community in unhealthy and destructive ways, especially to the artists on the site. This can happen anywhere, the big difference is that it's not called out on by other members of the user base and it's not combated by the admins. I really wish I could say that it was just a few rotten apples, but it's rather much the reverse, it's a tiny handful of people that come out of the woodwork occasionally that are nice.

I've been on art communities both young and old, large and small, quiet and loud, some since they first started and others much later. FA is, by far, in every possible manner that I can think of, the worst one I've experienced other than for getting business. I've been on FA since it first started, but once it went through it's reboot things drastically took a turn for the absolute worst and it's only gotten worse from there. It is an objectively bad site in every possible way on a statistical level. People can be there, they can like it, but it's definitely not good or serviceable.