Twitter Chaos

[forestofglory]

Twitter seems like it might implode at any moment now. Even if Twitter doesn't implode a lot of people are leaving and its going to be changed after this. I know we all call it a hellsite but I'm going to miss the community I had there.

I was very hesitant to use Twitter at first, but eventually renay convinced me to join. (Renay convincing me to do things is a source of many good things in my life) I started out mostly hanging out with SFF folks and chatting about short SFF. When I got into transformative fandom I added more folk to talk about characters and fic. And I've always followed a smattering of scholars in fields I'm interested in. In the last couple of years I've also been following various local politicians to keep up with local news. I like that twitter is and eclectic mix of things!

I've made friends on twitter. Twitter is where I find out about a lot of thing things I read. I learn about pro SFF, fanfic and historical monographs there that I don't think I would find out about elsewhere. I've also found Twitter very helpful for motivating self study. I like live tweeting books about the history of china, and my classical Chinese lessons. It helps give me some feedback on something that otherwise would be very solitary.

Anyways I'm trying out some new social media sites to see if they can fill some of the hole. I'm now Forestofglory@wandering.shop on Mastodon and Forestofglory on Cohost. I'm not sure that I will be using either of those long term. But I guess we'll see.

Comments

[cinnamonandpancakes]

there's nothing that quite replicates how easy it is/was to find interesting people on twitter and then show everyone their cool book/blog/newsletter...

[forestofglory]

Yeah, Twitter was great for discoverability!

[clevermanka]

I never used Twitter until Guardian fandom but now I'm gonna miss it so much.

[forestofglory]

Guardian fandom twitter was a delight!

[lunabee34]

*hugs*

I know there's been a lot of glee about the implosion of Twitter, but it's really sad to lose such an important site for so many people.

[forestofglory]

Thanks, it's such a bummer

[merelydovely]

Totally unsure if I'm even going to use cohost, though I did make an account. Dragging my feet on mastodon because I feel like I ought to read twelve use manuals before jumping in and I just don't have the brain right now.

I'll definitely miss Twitter. I can replicate a lot of the fan activity elsewhere, but I had a second account for politics, journalism, media, booktwt, etc and I just don't think I'll be able to replicate that, even on Mastodon :/

[forestofglory]

I'm mostly just lurking on Mastodon because it's confusing. So far I've been able to follow some book people and some fandom people, but not a lot academics and my whole network is just a lot smaller.