No.54233
When an importer provides their session ID to Kemono, Kemono then goes through the importer's account and imports every artists they're subscribed to. The importer doesn't get to pick and choose which artists get imported.
For example, let's say I'm subscribed to 21 artists on Patreon.
For the 10 artists, I'm paying for content that is easily accessible through Kemono. That's exactly the kind of easy content we want imported. No one is going to complain about that. But in order to import those 10 artists, I also have to import the remaining 11 artists.
For 5 of the artists, I'm only subscribed to the free tier. People will complain about only the free content being imported, but what can I do? The only way I can prevent the free content from being imported is to not import the other artists.
For 3 of the artists, the content is locked behind a 3rd-party site. There's no way for me to provide access to this content. People will complain that more useless posts are being imported, but, like the free posts, I can't prevent their import.
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No.54234
For 2 of the artists, the content is locked behind DMs. I can import these DMs, but some people don't. Why don't they? There are a couple reasons I can think of:
1. The importer is the artist or one of their supporters, so they don't actually want to share the content.
2. The importer doesn't realize the DMs can be imported, or thinks they're imported automatically.
3. The importer doesn't want to share all of their DMs and doesn't realize they can choose which DMs get imported.
4. The importer has a lot of DMs and is too lazy to sift through them all to pick out the ones that need to be imported.
5. The importer fears the artists has colored the DMs and will be able to identify and ban the importer based on the DMs that get imported.
No matter which case applies to me, it's still worth it for me to import these 2 artists so that I can import the first 10 artists.
For the last artist, the content is locked behind Discord. I can import the Discord, but maybe I forgot I was subscribed to this artist and that I need to import the Discord as well. Or maybe I was too lazy and figured the first 10 artists I imported were good enough.
So the only way for me to import those first 10 artists with good content is if I also import the 11 artists with "useless" posts. The moral of the story is that sometimes neither malice nor stupidity are to blame. Sometimes there's a reasonable explanation you haven't considered. So quit your bitching.
No.54238
>>54234no, the moral of the story is, make the site let people select which artists to import, and also import dms automatically, at least for accounts flagged to need them, or even just allow importers to add a note to the import so they can paste the accompanying password or whatever manually, or they can paste a link to a a copy of the mega or whatever dump of the works they made, etc…