EctaFoole

Caelyn

@EctaFoole

Writer & narrative designer, full time queer mess. Put the gay deer in Caves of Qud.

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EctaFoole
@EctaFoole

Becoming smaller

I am trying to stay away from Bluesky. I squatted my username and made a basic profile but I haven't posted and I was hoping not to. AFAICT it's basically Twitter 2, and I have no confidence that I can use it safely and healthily.

BUT

also, it seems like a lot of gamedev twitter is going there, including my clientbosses & colleague contractors, and I'm gonna admit to feeling some kind of way about seeing fans be excited that "the caves of qud guys" are posting on the platform.

Can I really afford to evanesce like this? My design contributions to Qud are nontrivial but I'm still just a contractor clinging to a popular game like a barnacle. There's absolutely no guarantee that I'll have a living wage in 2025 and by trying to protect my mental health I could be sabotaging my future prospects.

There's really no winning play any more.

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psilocervine
@psilocervine

I think that's a real problem a lot of us are going to have to contend with. Despite what its advocates say, Mastodon is never really going to be a viable place for things like that, and I don't think cohost wants to be nor really should it be

The only Twitter 'em Up that feels like it stands a chance of being a specific kind of place where both MAKE NOTE OF MY WEARY SIGH networking with other people and also having an overlap with a variety of different sorts of people can interact is Bluesky. Lord knows I don't trust Meta's offering just given how they're doing this right after their disastrous pivot to the metaverse

This whole situation sucks. I hate every billionaire

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hewhoispale
@hewhoispale

Mastodon gives me big "Linux evangelist" vibes. Lots of weird smugness and insistence that their system is the obvious best one, even though it's designed to be fractured into a thousand individual gardens and has a non-trivial barrier to entry.
Bluesky just seems like Mastodon, but corporate and with Jack? I do not get why people are fleeing there (okay, I do, it's because Jack is there, who they think will bring back the "good old days" of Twitter (which were just as good as any other "good old days" people want to bring back, which is to say not very)).

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skitterchomp
@skitterchomp

i am completely baffled by that side of the discourse lately and it feels gross. like. there are reasons to use or not use a platform, if mastodon meets ur needs that is lovely for u, but why are we applying utopian ethical standards to a four-person project that we do not expect from billion-dollar companies (or even competing mastodon instances -.-). couldn't cohost just be a website you don't feel like using? is it necessary also to prove that its users are problematic sellouts? who is even winning in this fight? that is some twitter-ass purity discourse there

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