I have no idea what either Wattpad or AO3 is.
Both are creative writing sites with large/primary focuses on fanfiction. AO3 (Archive Of Our Own) allows for works depicting rape, incest, and pedophilia. IIRC Wattpad never did.
I’d describe it as Ao3 has a broader set of terms of service and permits a far wider range of stories to be told
Would you also describe Johnny Sins as an experienced, award winning actor whos played a wide array of roles? Cuz its true but…
AO3 is ArchiveOfOurOwn.org. They’re both fic hosting sites.
Imagine fictional stories being illegal at all.
part of the impetus for creating ao3 was a series of content purges intended to hit bad evil content also hitting, for instance, support groups for survivors, and g rated content if it was also gay.
its code is open source so i genuinely think people with their own ideas about moderation should take advantage of that or anything else (wordpress?) to make an archive. if there are good stories on it, i’ll visit. There should be more archives in general.
This is going to be a controversial opinion, but I really wish we had gatekept AO3 from the portion of the Twitter fandom crowd that keeps getting all the manga/anime/game/tv piracy sites taken down by blasting it all on social media.
Not everything has to be for everyone, and also if you don’t know what “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” is or don’t know how to Google it…maybe the website isn’t for you.
I use AO3 daily but wish there was a way to set tag preferences for the whole site so I dont have to manually filter out smut and rape
There are some scripts that might help? https://openuserjs.org/scripts/sarken/Blurb_Blocker https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/3578-ao3-saved-filters But it would be nice if it was easier.
