Lospec Pixel School is back! Check out PixelSchool.org and get 30% off during our Grand Opening!
After a long hiatus, Lospec Pixel School is back, under it's own website PixelSchool.org.
This new site lets people purchase self-guided written lessons and track their progress. Every lesson comes with assignment worksheets you can use to test your skills.
The Intro to Pixel Art course with 10 lessons is available for purchase. Lessons can also be purchased separately.
The grand opening sale gives you 30% off all purchases! Active for one week.
We also offer regional pricing (PPP), so you may automatically receive a discount based on your country (up to 80% off).
Learn more at the new website here: PixelSchool.org
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The Final Nail In X's Coffin - Rise of the Bluesky
I'm sure by now you've heard of the downfall of twitter, one of the already most controversial websites. In April 2022, the 2nd generation Apartheid billionaire Elmo Musk bought the website for $44 billion dollars.
Since then, Leon has made a series of changes to the site, which made it clear his mission was never to improve the website, but instead mold it into his own personal playground, that reflected his world views and prioritized protecting "free speech" (hate speech) and
With each change he made, the site got more toxic as more good people left, and now it has become far more toxic than it ever was before (and it already had a reputation for being a horrible place).
Yesterday Twitter announced some changes to their Terms of Service which removed the ability for users to opt out of allowing their content to be used to train twitters AI product, Grock.
In response, Lospec has decided to remove it's social media links to these platforms. So if you look at the footer of Lospec now, you'll see Bluesky and Mastodon have replaced the Twitter and Reddit links. We've also changed the hashtag links on palette pages to prioritize other social media websites - and will remove X in a few months when the last few stragglers finally admit that it's dead.
In the meantime, we highly reccomend moving your social media presense to Bluesky - which has had a huge bump in users over the past day due to these changes - or Mastodon another great well-established option.
For similar reasons (forced AI training, shutting down of APIs, toxic user behavior) we've also shut down the /r/Lospec feed on Reddit, disassociated from /r/PixelArt and will no longer cater to that website.
If you log into Lospec via Twitter or Reddit, I highly reccomend you switch to using another platform such as Discord or Reddit, just to be safe.
Hopefully this is not the end of good social media, but rather the beginning.
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