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I won't be posting on twitter today because it's owner has threatened to charge everyone a fee to use it. If you use twitter as your main source of online social interaction, please consider taking today off. Please also tell me how to use Discord.
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Diswhat?!
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I won't be posting on twitter today because it's owner has threatened to charge everyone a fee to use it. If you use twitter as your main source of online social interaction, please consider taking today off. Please also tell me how to use Discord.
I already killed my Twitter Ecks (pronounced like a cat horking up a hairball) account because the current owner happily platforms & promotes anti-Semites, authoritarians, insurrectionists, racists, sexists, and homophobes/transphobes. He also previously announced plans to gather & retain even more user data, including biometrics.
I feel sorry for the many creators still dependent on the service to reach fans and job opportunities, but for me, the choice to leave was clear.
I will need to contact the individuals who make the things I enjoy on....whatever it is. I do enjoy a fair amount of art(and it IS art, I don't care what anyone says), interacting with weirdo artists, and other random things on the platform, and I would like to support these folks as it seems the platform is starting to die.
Mastodon seems to have become popular and then and faded away at the wrong time...
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I don't feel too sorry for the creators "dependent" on the service. If enough people left for or focused on other available platforms (many of which are popular and growing in popularity), their fans would follow them. I understand a struggling artist or writer might try to use whatever social media account they can to reach folks but at the same time the reason most folks have stayed with the service is because they want to keep following their favorite actors/artists/writers/musicians/politicians/etc. and if those public figures moved en masse elsewhere, the platform would finally sink.
That so many public figures are willing to implicitly support Musk because they are afraid to move elsewhere is why Musk and this platform has power. Everyone's gotta make a living, yes, but sometimes folks have to take a risk for what's right--being complicit with someone who spreads Nazi propaganda is joining in with a Nazi movement. And given it's NOT the only social media platform in the world or way for folks to broadly promote their work, it's not THAT much of a risk, relatively speaking, to leave.
I recognize it's not easy for people who are not major public figures and there are a lot of nuances to the situation that one cannot easily mention and keep this post short. This is where I stand on this issue, regardless.
Another, related problem is that journalists use Xitter to quote celebrities and public figures over all other platforms, and that's what gives it its attention. If major media outlets moved their attention to other platforms that people can indeed read publicly, I expect they could actually make a major positive difference in the world. But they won't.
((For reasons of complete information: I had a Twitter account long ago but deleted it not too long after the 2016 election for reasons I will leave to your imagination.))
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What if I use Paizo as my main source of online social interaction?
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What if I use Paizo as my main source of online social interaction?
So far all it costs is time and I'm find with that because it's one of my main sources of social media. I have a Twitter account (soon to be my X Twitter account...see what I did there? I'm so freaking clever) but I have never used it. I won't be out a single thing on it.
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I'll take up smoking and then give that up!
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What if I use Paizo as my main source of online social interaction?
Same. Good crowd, things seldom get too heated, and no one can post pictures of their goblin babies that I'm supposed to respond positively too. It's ideal, really.
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What if I use Paizo as my main source of online social interaction?
That seems a lot healthier than many other fandom forums. {goes back to fervently arguing "Rumble is red, " on TFW2005.com forums}
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I've never had a Twitter/X account. It's a point of pride for me.
"...and when the Sentience went looking for revenge on those who had snubbed it, it did not have far to look. I guess pride goeth before erasure."
Mastodon is based in Texas, an angry red state, and it's mascot is an elephant in a fursuit. That's a DC8 trap to detect.
I've tried to use Discord, but they keep asking me to change my online name with a game controller, and select a sub board. Is there a sub board called what twitter used to be?
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It's like... each individual word must mean something, but when you put them all together...
"I used to be with it*. Then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me." -Abraham J. Simpson
*Quibblemuch was never with it, for any given value of 'it'.
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{sips crab juice} I'm still wearing onions on my belt, hoping they'll come back into fashion.
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*yells at cloud*