Campster

Regret Elemental

Maker of Organic, Artisanal Video Essays About Interactive Media


Was @Campster on Twitter, once.


Still confused when people call him "Errant Signal."


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I suppose as the iceberg continues to scrape against the side of the Titanic that is Twitter, I should make an effort to actually post here.

Part of the problem is that I never really used Tumblr. For over a decade I've either been writing 4+ page screeds to turn into YouTube videos, or I've been limited to less than 280 characters at a time. So I'm not sure how to use this brave, new medium of CSS-infused mid-length mixed media posts. The Blogosphere feels oh so long ago.

I mean, I can already tell that my tone here is all wrong - there's a degree of lighthearted irreverence in my Cohost feed that hasn't been on my Twitter feed for years. Really, I think I'm going to have to re-learn how to play and joke and shitpost in ways that aren't curt responses to someone else's tweets or a criticism of something going on right this second but instead stand on their own as witty or amusing or at least interesting.

I think the closest format to this I actually have experience with is the Web Forums of old. And it's been almost 20 years since I've posted regularly on an internet forum. Here's hoping it comes back to me.


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in reply to @Campster's post:

if it helps, you could just break this text into one post with like 3 replies, and make it feel like twitter. or you could just EMBRACE THE FREEDOM / CHAOS 🤘🤙

It definitely feels more like LiveJournal and internet forums than like Twitter – I think there’s a whole angle of active participation which I didn’t have to have on Twitter, and it’s something I’m re-learning.

Put another way: lurking on cohost feels more lurk-y than lurking on Twitter.