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Surfing the Twitpocalypse
Nov. 2nd, 2022 03:31 pmWell the whole "will he/won't he" scenario went down via the worst possible result, which is unfortunately the tendency of this timeline. #FuckThisTimeline But now that Oblong Putz has started Twitter careening towards the nearest brick wall, hooting "YOLO!" all the way, it's time to re-examine my online presence, and to that end, I want to post here more. DreamWidth is probably never going to capture the "right place right time" phenomenon of LiveJournal, but honestly it's valuable to just write something every day, whether it creates a community or not.
But also? As much as I was joking yesterday, the fiery crash of Twitter might be a blessing in disguise. It was tweeting that had already dealt an unrecoverable blow to everyday blogging before Russia gobbled up LJ, and how many 25-tweet threads should have just been a journal post?
(All of them. The answer is all of them.)
I don't for a second expect people bailing the bird to start posting here in droves; the most patient will move to Mastodon hoping for a Twitter-like. The ones who bounce off of that platform's even-less-pushbutton-than-DW nature will, I'm guessing, end up on Instagram or even (eeeeeew) back on Facebook. But what I'm hoping for is instead a cultural shift. All morning I had a peculiar premonition that the past (mumble) years of Twitter were in some ways an anomaly, a fad with really long legs, the junk food of social media. (And I'm as guilty of chowing down as anybody.)
This is not a prediction–I've been burned enough times by thinking I knew what was ahead to stop thinking that ever about anything. But it is a possibility, and one that I'm excited about.
So one of my projects for this week is to clean up my web presence, and that includes posting thoughts here more often than "once every bazillion years." I don't have the luxury of a desk job any more, so I can't just log in and bang out a post between projects the way I did during the Glory Days of LJ, Mastodon will still be my go-to for quickie posting. But the past three years for me have been largely defined by an inability to focus, and in a lot of ways I just feel like I'm out of practice.
Time to make DreamWidth my practice!
Why DW and not Gneech.com? Honestly, because I want Gneech.com to be a little more formal. I don't want to be posting "Three Good Things" posts or random goofy bits of nonsense there, but here that's totally fair game. That and, crossposting and moderating comments on Gneech.com is a pain. >.> That site, as well as JohnRRobey.com and BringingTheAwesome.com could all use complete reworks, but that's a big project, and right now I only have the bandwidth for incremental improvements.
Also! I'm looking for communities and other ways to connect. If anyone has recommendations, I'd love to hear 'em. :) In the meantime... see you tomorrow. ;)
-TG
But also? As much as I was joking yesterday, the fiery crash of Twitter might be a blessing in disguise. It was tweeting that had already dealt an unrecoverable blow to everyday blogging before Russia gobbled up LJ, and how many 25-tweet threads should have just been a journal post?
(All of them. The answer is all of them.)
I don't for a second expect people bailing the bird to start posting here in droves; the most patient will move to Mastodon hoping for a Twitter-like. The ones who bounce off of that platform's even-less-pushbutton-than-DW nature will, I'm guessing, end up on Instagram or even (eeeeeew) back on Facebook. But what I'm hoping for is instead a cultural shift. All morning I had a peculiar premonition that the past (mumble) years of Twitter were in some ways an anomaly, a fad with really long legs, the junk food of social media. (And I'm as guilty of chowing down as anybody.)
This is not a prediction–I've been burned enough times by thinking I knew what was ahead to stop thinking that ever about anything. But it is a possibility, and one that I'm excited about.
So one of my projects for this week is to clean up my web presence, and that includes posting thoughts here more often than "once every bazillion years." I don't have the luxury of a desk job any more, so I can't just log in and bang out a post between projects the way I did during the Glory Days of LJ, Mastodon will still be my go-to for quickie posting. But the past three years for me have been largely defined by an inability to focus, and in a lot of ways I just feel like I'm out of practice.
Time to make DreamWidth my practice!
Why DW and not Gneech.com? Honestly, because I want Gneech.com to be a little more formal. I don't want to be posting "Three Good Things" posts or random goofy bits of nonsense there, but here that's totally fair game. That and, crossposting and moderating comments on Gneech.com is a pain. >.> That site, as well as JohnRRobey.com and BringingTheAwesome.com could all use complete reworks, but that's a big project, and right now I only have the bandwidth for incremental improvements.
Also! I'm looking for communities and other ways to connect. If anyone has recommendations, I'd love to hear 'em. :) In the meantime... see you tomorrow. ;)
-TG
