Grims!! (SAME @ ON BLUESKY)

I rarely post on my ffxiv Twitter now, but I feel like I would more often on here, for sure :x

I'll look into doing so tomorrow! 💜

another exodus from twitter, another group of artists migrating to bluesky, another day of watching all of them be like damn this place is so nice but it's really missing [feature cohost has had since forever] and just screaming into the heavens

i'm almost positive that people come here and see no numbers on posts and think it means every post is a potential failure because it's not "doing numbers" and it makes me sad how much this shit has just broken people. i wish i could sit every person down and explain why that's such a meaningless way of measuring 'success' but also that it's like, actually a lot worse on BS because yeah you see numbers there but getting like 10 RTs on a site that has way more users than here is actually kind of abysmal! your posts relatively actually do a lot worse there because people are not there for that content. they never were, they never will be. the twitter micro-blogging experience is not condusive to art it is condusive to virality and low-quality posting.

sigh

I made a comment on how BS n Threadz kept getting these no context hype trains for furries/literally any content, but then promptly lose 75% of their users in a week cause it's just more of the same. Hell I know one of the people making this claim and I know for a fact she's already off those sites

Meanwhile people genuinely detoxing over here while getting the actual meaningful interactions they crave, but because it's not got some arbitrary rpg stats below it, it isn't "viable"

I think these people in general REALLY need to explore what viable actually means

Is viable getting people to click your kofi? Is it getting actual people critically interacting with your work? Is it being able to be honest and yourself?

Or is it getting folks you don't know, don't like and certainly don't care about just bumping up some stats on your posts?

Either way the answer is cohost ¯\ _ (ツ) _/¯

the one thing i didn't realize until i did a cohost detox is that i didn't actually need to follow my prior network of parasocial interactions wherever they collectively went, because the "magic" was never with them; it was inside me all along and i'd take that magic with me wherever i went and with whomever i interacted with and cultivated relationships with

that's what it means to have self-respect; to respect the value that your self brings to the table everywhere you go