Re: the list, probably to make themselves feel better. It's dumb and pointless and achieves nothing. It doesn't even include screenshots or quotes of their supposed "crimes" or whatever. And more often than not, the term SJW is overused nonsense that doesn't cause me any worry at all. Southpark is just a cartoon, guys. Not a manifesto.

I would say, if you are looking for a larger community maybe just move to Deviantart (some of the people are children, but the art has a wider range of subject and skills) and the majority of the comments are... less gross.
But it is also an easy sea to get lost in, as the 'community' is huge.

I found pumping my art mojo into my Tumblr and Instagram was actually a better move? Less targeted market and thus less in fandom drama.

I wouldn't think less of you. I left FA a few years ago and swore I'd never go back, but here I am, going back.

Also that list... I kind of want to list myself out of spite. I know many of the people on there.

I'm not on the list. :C There's some cool people on the list and I'm not on the cool list; boo. Maybe I'll submit myself.

In any case - I'm not returning to FA and I hope you keep being active here on Weasyl so we can interact. But if you want to crosspost to FA, well don't beat yourself up over it? Please be careful though, as some people can be quite toxic.

I wouldn't! I understand why a lot of people left and I also understand why some of them have gone back. I just stay in the background. I interact with the people I like and care about and just try to stay out of everything else. I did try to be more active on here though to keep up with people as they left so now I'm kinda on both equally!

Do what you must but please don't abandon your weasyl... Some of the people that watch you here will never return to FA (including me)

At this point it's unlikely many users care. Considering some of the most vocal opponents of FA / proponents of Weasyl have returned to FA or abandoned Weasyl, I doubt anyone would fuss much.

It wouldn't bother me at all, hon.

I would love it if you came back. I honestly don't use this site at all. Or Devian art. I use FA, but not like I used to. If you want to use this and FA, that would be fine.

Go for it, hun :) as long as you feel happy and safe to. Would also appreciate it if you linked us to your new account. But if you'd rather not, I respect your wishes :)

Wouldn't think any less of you! If you're comfortable going back do what feels best and fits best for you. :D
As for that list, I'm about 99.9% sure this is the same person that was on SoFurry a few months ago saying most of the artists listed were in a cult. :/

I wouldn't think less of you; it's very understandable since FA still has much more activity. I'm still there myself as, understandably, many people who had their commissions depend on FA stayed there even tho they wanted to leave.
Let's hope FA's staff would experience a healthy switch in the near future.
"We all float down here" :D

And that tumblr... well that's not creepy at all, and I recognized a lot of names from there too, many which I wouldn't consider "SJW". But apparently they have mentioned at least once an issue regarding equal treatment or they don't fit in bunary gender?? Being "fakesexual" (how does someone on the internet really know what's going on in the life of another internet user?) seems to be a big crime to the maker of that page. And gasp, being vegan is on the list too. The horror, the horror! :'D
I reported the blog to the tumblr, don't know if that leads anywhere. Imo that's borderline bullying and certainly stalking/slandering.

I wouldn't think less of you. I'd be pretty fucking hypocritical if I did. You have to do what you have to do to take care of yourself. If you need the money/following/interaction, there's nothing wrong with going back.

I had a similar crisis when I went back, and fiance explained it like this: if you had a job with great coworkers, good pay, and loyal customers, but the company you worked for had some questionable staff/practices/policies, would you quit your job over that? Would anyone expect you to quit your job over that? Probably not.

No, I would not think less of you, especially for the reasons outlined. FA has not improved and their management is still terrible, but it's still good for business. I'm not nearly into the social aspect of that place anymore mostly because of the implementation and (non)usability of the site than the people there but I know a lot of users still are. I get more disappointed over the fact that when people move back to FA they all but forget about this place again, so the cycle just perpetuates itself. I always give priority of commenting, journals and general activity to this place.

And as for that link, I don't care what side of the sociopolitical fence you're on (and I'm not going to go further into my own opinions on that), but once you do shit like public callout posts and blacklists, you need to reassess priorities and do some critical self-examination.

I would not think less of you. They have made some improvements to the site too.

Looking at the list, they confuse feminism with mysandry, and in general think anyone that says anything like "don't be a dick to other people" is a SJW.

I had to go back in order to pay my bills

Its cool <3

(and god the SJW list is so out of date, don't they know im a nonbinary genderfucker special snowflake too?)

I'm active on FA just as a watcher any more. The moment IMVU bought in I stripped 99% of my everything off the site.

I'd love it, actually. Weasyl just isn't for me and I miss seeing your art and hearin' from ya. :)

I would be pleased to see you return! I totally understand why you left in the first place though, that whole thing was a mess that was not handled well at all. I respect that you were brave enough to speak up in the face of so much hate too.

The only thing I demand is knowing your new name, so I can cheerfully bug you there, too. ;)

I basically had to go back for much of the reason Sparta listed, I need the business whether or not the company isn't the greatest. And I also missed the interaction, as great as I think Weasyl is, it's lacking in "movement" . So yeah, another "wouldn't blame you!" here, with an additional thumbs up.

I've been on FA forever (though had to switch account a while back) and am still on there.... so yeah, no problem from me! I understand how much more active it is there compared to here.

aw im not on the list i guess i need to up my social justicing

As long as you don't abandon weasyl, I say do what you gotta do