birdsite
Giving artist Twitter a chance again today. I've apparently been off the site since last August, despite having a few folks' feeds up since then to keep up with the news.
Noticing that most of the toxicity that drove me off is now concentrated into an echo chamber of political accounts and their satellite networks of bots, and that it's spilling less into main feed than it was before. I might be able to work with this, though I still heavily distrust The Algorithm.
This is more or less the arrangement I used with reading Tumblr pre- and post- December 2018. I find a small contingent of artists I can follow, set that to be my main feed, then put harder topics in digests that I can read when I can handle them.
re: birdsite
Mostly, I'm looking back at the site to see if I can make it work for posting artwork again. Rant yesterday helped me realize I can probably make that work again, though the arrangement is going to be quite different than my 2015 and 2016 setup.
re: birdsite
I often quip that my primary motivator is to make exciting things boring (I write security hardening software). I never thought I’d need to advocate so strongly for that in discussion software, too.
re: birdsite, pol-adjacent
Jack, keep the spambots, my follower numbers are dying.
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*quiet screaming*
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I think I’ll keep using Masto as my primary, yeah.
re: birdsite, pol-adjacent
@Goldkin
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re: birdsite, pol-adjacent
Update: just read that Jack and Twitler sat down for a meeting today to discuss “the health of the public conversation on Twitter”. Not touching Twitter again in light of that news.