>>54906767Every site has their own problems. Wattpad is algorithm-driven and is full of people aspiring to be "real" novelists who sell their works as ebooks.
FF.net is full of children and manchildren and doesn't allow NSFW, except when it does due to shitty moderation, and also you will be crucified if you write something objectionable. Spacebattles and QQ are both forums and are a "community" first and foremost, so just finding something to fucking read is hard. AO3 is basically just a huge database with way too many tags and its search functions won't help you find fics that are actually good, just fics that meet certain criteria (length, completion, crossover, ships) Tumblr is actually pretty good if you're just posting shortform stuff and you're willing to tolerate the rest of Tumblr's... Tumblrness. Rentry is a good site for posting drafts and stuff if you want to share on another platform like Twitter 4chan, or Discord, but you can't really go looking for other people's stuff on Rentry. Twitter is a shitty communication tool and isn't really a community, per se, but it has the advantage of being the de-facto communication that just about everyone uses to some degree. Discord is a roulette wheel because every community is completely different and they're isolated from each other, and the probability of finding a dumpster fire is high; but if someone whose opinion you already trust knows of a "good" Discord there's no harm in checking it out.
Still, none of those are actively malicious like Webnovel. They have spambots that try to "recruit" people from other sites, which should be an instant fucking red flag. I'm sure the content on there is... fine? But at the end of the day Webnovel is a predatory excuse for a publishing house who wants to scam authors for their own profit.
