bea from gay and tired and asleep. nonstop about trails, visual novels with butterfly motifs, gay women books and blorbos
(pfp is by miyurosesere on twitter)
Take it off your phone, tell close friends to hold you to it, lock your password in a .zip file to make it hard for yourself to log in, deactivate it but log in periodically to keep the @ like i'm doing, trade it for a new offline hobby, reclaim Living.
And if it's an absolute no-go due to a career, I'm sorry. But if you look into stats, it might surprise you how little it's doing for you in that regard. That's what helped set me down this path.
Socially, agreed. But what's a better way to do self promotion? I hate to think the only way is to leave it up to website algorithms...
It's a weird time and I'm no expert so I can't make a call on where it's gonna go, but I'm really glad for my mailing list and website as the things I control that are gonna help me hang on. Social media algorithms still run everything right now, but I do believe people are getting fed up and there's gonna be a return to more traditional stuff like networking/events (not necessarily in person). And I've noticed pretty much every other social media shows me to followers more reliably than twitter did in December when I left, too.
ive noticed that the bandcamp... universe... and "direct links" (probably discord mostly), gets me WAY more money than twitter does. and that helped me a lot!
Yeah, "direct links" is the gargantuan category that got me the most traffic too
This coming after I said I'm reducing my Twitter usage heavy is just... Man. You right!
Honestly, after deleting the app, a weight I never knew of lifted off my shoulders. If there's a way for artists (established or budding) to have a dedicated place where they can uplift each other on things in real time that isn't polluted by Twitter? I'd love that ever so much.
