Simple Daily Drawing is not Simple any longer

Simple Daily Drawing is not Simple any longer.

     The group is expanding outside of  Facebook. And even thought I do understand and share the founders' misgivings about Facebook, I do not think the new "home" will be a home to me.

It's behind a paywall. You have to subscribe to a community where you are offered much more than the daily prompt and a place to share the resulting drawings. 

The newsmail tells:

• We are migrating the daily drawing prompt feed from Facebook to our new, Mighty Network. After May 1st, that’s where it will live. Beginning in May, we will post Monthly themes and bonus challenges to the Facebook Group, but we will be focusing our time, energy and dedication to our new platform.
• In this new community, you’ll be able to access MORE than just a place where people post drawings… We'll host events, launch courses, organize (virtual, and in-person!) meet-ups, and much more - all tailored to the unique needs and interests of our members. In fact, our members will dictate our offerings as we grow.
• This community will bring you a more meaningful, deeper connection with each other. It is very user-friendly, and it will walk you through the platform when you first sign on so you can quickly learn where everything is.
  

With this I feel let down and deeply frustrated. Because in SDD I had finally found a community free of stress, free of extras, free of any kind of pressure.

And yes, the Facebook group will stay. And the founder emotionally declares that she will not abandon us, not let this group rot; of course I trust her, but I an quite pessimistic here.
  My misgivings concern the contents, the atmosphere and so on in the FB-group. A majority of the active SDDers will naturally go to the new group, will post there, will comment on one anothers drawings there. They won't all do double duty, posting and commenting in both places ... maybe in the beginning they will.
  But time and energy can only be spent once, so slowly the FB group will suffer, and this suffering is the spiral of death for any group. Fewer comments, fewer likes, leading to fewer posts, less time invested, less content. Leaving me and the other casuals to fend for ourselves.

There's some days I only turn on my computer to see what Angie and the rest did with the prompt today. I have the prompts as background on my computer, so that it is the first thing I see when I turn it on. And it has made me smile - some days just a bit - since october '21. Today I felt depressed seeing it.

I do not know how I'm going to continue from here onwards. Much will depend on what happens to the Facebook group. I am not staying to be the witness of a gradual decline, where all the active and supportive participants are leaving for the new shiny.