Masto, meta
An issue I’m having making the jump from birdsite to Masto for public posts is I want to post too much stuff, including linking in things I post on gallery sites. It all sort of logjams into not posting at all, because I’m worried about clogging timelines with what I made for dinner that day, nightly art, old Art Fight posts, etc etc etc.
In other words, the private community vibe is good, but doesn’t shape itself well to putting art posts on blast for people to follow. So, what do?
Masto, meta
I think this is a common trend and mostly a pendulum swing, because the same trend happened with BBSes, USENET, and around the advent of early forum software and image hosting. Enough people diasporaed off of bigger hosts, causing the next iteration to slowly come online.
I guess the other side of Masto not working for me is personal: I lack the unbounded optimism for public posting I had for LJ and early Twitter, and the jump from long-form projects to memes doesn’t work for me.
Masto, meta
I guess this is all of a way of rambling out that I think Masto is great, that it has a place in replacing birdhellsite for community, but that culturally there is still a thing missing for people that want to post and keep track of larger projects again.
So I think I’m going to try to figure out what shape of that works for me, more than trying to figure out how to make that work with Masto.
Masto, meta
I find myself spending much more time now working with people who are creating stuff that takes a long time, and isn’t based around common cultural touchstones that share rapidly, so much as labors of love they’ve invested in (including my own longer-form projects). And... Masto isn’t shaping itself well around those discussions for me, in ways I cannot easily articulate.
But chat, project boards, longer posts, and in-person are, so I’ve been there instead.