I’ve had my issues with DeviantART over the years, and I know most of my art friends have moved on and consider the site trash
but dang does their new protection thing work great. I get a few notifications a week about people trying to sell my art as NFTs, and take down works pretty smoothly, most of the thieves deactivate and leave once caught.
It just really stinks that non subscribers only get the 3 month benefits since most of the art I have stolen and attempted sold are a minimum of 1 year old, like they are specifically looking for art outside of that bubble
They should extend this benefit to all members though I understand it is probably really expensive to do that. I just feel if they extended it to a year or something for non subscribers then these bots or scammers would just look again outside that bubble
I guess the best I can do is offer out diamond badges to friends so they can get a one month scan to see if their stuff is being sold. Let me know if this is something you would like to do. I have some 4,000 fragments so can make like 10 badges