thank you for being one of the few ppl who has spoken against that app... seeing all the ppl on the comments pummping it up got me like ?_?
i think most ppl are just readers and new to fandom spaces and don't understand all the implications that go behind ao3 being ao3. as a writer, i fought with goodreads 2 years ago to get my fics down form that platform.
like this 'app' my writing wasn't there per se, but i don't want it to be anywhere except ao3.
ppl are already mean in public bookmarks, i cannot imagine how awful it's going to be in a 'private app' that we all know is going to be screenshotted and posted publicly like 😭
also, ao3 works in a grey area and works bcs there's no monetization... adding it to a store means censorship and they've just made a little update saying that 'maybe' if they're low on cash they might monetize like... hello??? (https://x.com/frenchudcon/status/2042708941382058109)
i want to tap out. i don't want my fics to be in that app. i don't care if it's just the name and the tags. i want to control my writing. if i don't have that control, i might as well delete my fics.
also, i've seen you can actually access ao3 from the app, isn't that going to mess with ao3 servers even more?
sorry for the rant, but apart from you, i've only seen a couple more authors express their disagreement