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This might initially come off as a "Welp, Twitter is screwed, I'm outta here, where to go?" kind of thread. It sort of is, but I think it also goes deeper than that, touching on the overarching topic and situation of being a creative person, and leaving the platform in favour of other avenues to grow creatively and individually.
I've been depending on Twitter a lot, using hashtags like #gamedev and #indiedev to showcase my work. This has lead to some fair spread, and growing perspectives. Some truly warming moments has come from this, such as seeing so many cool and inspiring projects, and also seeing nice and encouraging words and tweets from fellow indie developers who like what I do. Now, as I watch the slow-motion train wreck that is Twitter recently, I find myself sort of... well, stranded. So many nice memories of sharing creative works on the platform, and I wonder how best to replace it - where to go, in short.
The topic of "Twitter alternative" has cropped up time and time again, with Cohost and Mastodon being posed as viable alternatives, but I wanted to create a thread for creative people in particular, to share thoughts on how to best connect with creative people in the same field in a wider scope.
I've been depending on Twitter a lot, using hashtags like #gamedev and #indiedev to showcase my work. This has lead to some fair spread, and growing perspectives. Some truly warming moments has come from this, such as seeing so many cool and inspiring projects, and also seeing nice and encouraging words and tweets from fellow indie developers who like what I do. Now, as I watch the slow-motion train wreck that is Twitter recently, I find myself sort of... well, stranded. So many nice memories of sharing creative works on the platform, and I wonder how best to replace it - where to go, in short.
The topic of "Twitter alternative" has cropped up time and time again, with Cohost and Mastodon being posed as viable alternatives, but I wanted to create a thread for creative people in particular, to share thoughts on how to best connect with creative people in the same field in a wider scope.