I've been thinking about this problem for a while now, and I am trying to determine the best way to solve it.
Civit has been having a problem. That is pretty clear. Moderation is tightening, we've certainly seen a dip in the meta level of interest site wide.
part of my issue is I am a local generator. I don't use the online system really at all. Further, my content while regularly scheduled and routine, is of such widely different varieties of content from PG to XXX, and further still a wide spectrum of niches and tastes I can't help but think: how much further will my options be cut down?
I've looked at a few options for multi-hosted content, and frankly most of them suck or artificially paywall themselves. It's starting to look like NSFW will die, and you have to it very specific audiences to gain traction anywhere SFW, not because there is a lot of SFW, but because no one is really keeping track of it or seeing much valuable traffic to it. It's more than 10 to 1 in favor of NSFW by every metric I've seen that is public.
So what do we do? My simple solution is to ignore it until it is an actual problem. Followed quickly by next best alternatives and then just letting it die or going only into specialized use cases rather than the monolith of slop I test for people and just get curious to see if it works.
The harder thing is it gets tiring, on a task that nominally should be easier and the least effort barring those few who do retouch and tailored generations.
I just can't help but think to what purpose am I still posting ? yet I do. and I am sure some of you at least clearly enjoy it enough to keep collecting it. As I suspect reactions have a much lower chance of being valid on the whole. The economics of user interaction get weird though.
I'm about to get Krita+Comfyui set up and will see how that handles in the new era of quality content.