Vera Lycaon

@VeraLycaon

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31 y/o white passing mixed w/ Black monster woman from the Netherlands. Artist (occasionally). Writer (again, every so often). Prone to camera sniffing behavior, one of them θΔ folk.

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Vera Lycaon @VeraLycaon12/20/2022, 2:41 AM

I'll say that one thing that does genuinely suck about the whole twitterpocalypse, beyond just being unable to hawk your own shit nearly as easily to prospective customers is the fact that communities, friend circles, etc have gotten that much more fragmented and there's nothing really anyone can do about it other than reach out and make sure those connections don't get severed, one way or another

even if Twitter was never a place to have big meaningful conversations it's one place less to shoot the shit a little with mutual friends and find each other, y'know?

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Turnsky @Turnsky12/20/2022, 2:49 AM

i can't help but feel that should twitter shatter like we feel it will, well, it'd be like if a planet explodes, bits fly everywhere, but eventually everything settles, coalesces and reforms back into something like it, if not better.

🔞 Mythicc @MythiccVixen12/20/2022, 2:52 AM

Agreed! It's extremely frustrating.

Trying to figure out where friends are going. Trying to keep communities together and safe, especially marginalized communities. Essentially starting over again with gaining an audience & client base as a creative.

I'm currently reaching across 14-16 different sites to keep track of and post to and I've skipped ones like Hive (holy shit, security issues). It's exhausting.

Vera Lycaon @VeraLycaon12/20/2022, 3:03 AM

Yeah. I've kind of accepted that I'll inevitably lose at least some folks over the course of this, but I still find myself scrambling just to stay connected with the folks I do talk to/wish to do so with, still - which is hard when you can often only maintain a cometary presence at best.

The Wandering Worldshaker, Mt. Blue Skies @TheBlueSkiesAbove12/20/2022, 3:23 AM

That's why I joined twitter ages back: to keep in touch with people during and after conventions and dream big.

But that reaching out and keeping those connections...that's what keeps me from despair.

The great thing about bridges is that we can build them again.

Dobes @DobesCrusher12/20/2022, 5:50 AM

Gonna miss that aspect for real and have not yet formed the habit for the other sites

Cooner @cooner12/20/2022, 5:00 PM

Absolutely. For as problematic as Twitter has been, it was kind of a one-stop shop to be able to reach almost everybody. (Not that everybody in the world was on Twitter, but it definitely felt like most people were, and especially people of note.)

One thing I feel we'll be missing is crossover. Because Twitter was so expansive it was often very likely that you'd break through and your comment or announcement or product or whatever would reach people in other fandoms, or even just mainstream normie people who would never have heard of you otherwise. (And likewise you could find other people and things you'd never have even thought to look for.) Having a (for example) big network of furries on some server is handy, but it's far less likely to have as many random barrier breaks like that.

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