v3launchunit

i like snakes and a free palestine

aside from the aforementioned affection towards snakes, i also hold a great deal of fondness in my heart for hollow knight (i am extremely normal™ about collector), rain world (miros birds are the best creature i will not be accepting criticism on this), command and conquer red alert 2 (kirov reporting), in stars and time (one must imagine sisyphus stuck in a time loop), and about a million other things.
i played through slay the princess and spent the whole game pretty much completely ignoring her in favor of dicking around with the narrator (there is no good ending because the narrator always dies) and the voices (contrarian is the best one), which probably says a lot about me (i am aromantic asexual (this will not stop me from rebugging horny™ shit that i am tangentially interested in)).
fuck it i'm a girl now (still he/they tho)
i also like to draw and make games & shit.


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dog
@dog

I know complaining about twitter is overdone, but every time I see that some artist/writer/gamedev/whatever only has a twitter to promote their work, I wonder if they're even aware what it looks like to people who aren't on twitter. Because these days you can't read most twitter accounts if you're not logged in, and even if you can see it at all, it shows stuff out of order. So your account for promoting your thing is showing tweets from like 2017 instead of your new tweet from this week saying "hey, my thing is out!"

Like I think it's always been true that twitter users overestimate how many people are actually on twitter, me included. But it was mostly harmless in an era where someone could find your account via google and see your latest tweets. And they can't do that anymore.


pervocracy
@pervocracy

Thanks for the reminder - I just permanently locked my Twitter.

It was a sad moment because I used to really like Doing Numbers on that site and it wasn't all bad, I had a lot of fun and met a lot of interesting people and had a lot of good conversations.

But there's no getting those times back.


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in reply to @dog's post:

Most of the people I work with are still exclusively on twitter and I do not get it. One guy is on fedi and he's the one I have the strongest kinship to (I wonder why??)

It's like the world changed and these folks just chose to not face it at all.

This is especially true for anyone with an account that Twitter has labeled NSFW, as it will just lie to anyone that tries to view your tweets without an account by falsely saying that your posts have been deleted.

It gets extra bad in the few cases where they decide "I'm sick of patreon, twitter subscribers is where it's at!" It ends up with the same energy as artists that decided to try pivoting to NFTs and suppressed replies calling them out for how stupid they were.

Right? Posting on any other platform with a fraction of the users and followers regularly gets more engagement than Twitter now. There’s really no reason to stick with it other than inertia.

in reply to @pervocracy's post:

I've heard that the place has become more clogged with bots than ever, too. I know that "Stop using Twitter" is easier said than done for a lot of creatives, but at the same time, if a sizeable portion of the engagement you're getting isn't even real... what do you have to lose by packing up and leaving?