like and subscribe my ASS
Oh my god. It feels so good writing a thing that isn't packed into 280 characters and can expand and grow and has depth and complexity and uses more skills than writing an advertising slogan for breakfast cereal. I can actually feel my mind expanding. That's not hippie bullshit; I mean it. I'm feeling out the possibilities that a soundbite doesn't allow.
Explanation for what's happening now, posted to LiveJournal.
Does this mean that I'm going to stop using Twitter? Probably not. But if I'm to continue using it, I'll have to break and subvert everything that makes Twitter what it is. (And I like the sound of that.) I'll have to turn off retweets for everybody, despite how difficult Twitter has deliberately made this, and I'll want to only visit everyone's individual feed directly, despite how difficult Twitter etc etc. Have you considered how there's no way to globally disable retweets, or how your followers/followed aren't in alphabetical order? It is deliberate. You're supposed to get tired and give in and do it their way. Just lay back and suck up that content... you'll totally change the world, honest. If Twitter brings people together, it is in spite of its administrators' best efforts.
Yeah, so. My intention is to feature most of my mind farts here, move most of my personal interaction to direct chats like Discord (is it fucking weird, invoking Discord in this Dubya-era format, or what?), and occasionally act out or make contact on Twitter. Whatever lets me avoid the unending deluge. Also I'd like to find out where people I used to know went post-LJ and bother the hell out of them. Maybe talk them out of being part of the 21st century. I may not be persuasive, but I'm distracting!
It's gonna be tough, because for a while I'll be shouting into a box. You go to a new site, nobody's there, so you go back to the old site. It's an old. old story. And I tried to revive my LiveJournal at least once; if there isn't interaction, a sense that somebody is out there enjoying it, it's difficult to stay motivated. But we'll see. We'll just see. I mean, I can't afford a camper van to write on the side of!
Explanation for what's happening now, posted to LiveJournal.
Does this mean that I'm going to stop using Twitter? Probably not. But if I'm to continue using it, I'll have to break and subvert everything that makes Twitter what it is. (And I like the sound of that.) I'll have to turn off retweets for everybody, despite how difficult Twitter has deliberately made this, and I'll want to only visit everyone's individual feed directly, despite how difficult Twitter etc etc. Have you considered how there's no way to globally disable retweets, or how your followers/followed aren't in alphabetical order? It is deliberate. You're supposed to get tired and give in and do it their way. Just lay back and suck up that content... you'll totally change the world, honest. If Twitter brings people together, it is in spite of its administrators' best efforts.
Yeah, so. My intention is to feature most of my mind farts here, move most of my personal interaction to direct chats like Discord (is it fucking weird, invoking Discord in this Dubya-era format, or what?), and occasionally act out or make contact on Twitter. Whatever lets me avoid the unending deluge. Also I'd like to find out where people I used to know went post-LJ and bother the hell out of them. Maybe talk them out of being part of the 21st century. I may not be persuasive, but I'm distracting!
It's gonna be tough, because for a while I'll be shouting into a box. You go to a new site, nobody's there, so you go back to the old site. It's an old. old story. And I tried to revive my LiveJournal at least once; if there isn't interaction, a sense that somebody is out there enjoying it, it's difficult to stay motivated. But we'll see. We'll just see. I mean, I can't afford a camper van to write on the side of!