(I never thought I'd write a blog here, however I have something to complain about and I don't know where else to do it.)
I'm not a big social media guy, but a lot of people use twitter for project updates. I thought it would be nice to get those updates sent to me directly instead of checking their pages manually.
So I created an account, followed a few game projects that I'm interested in, and all was good.
And then The DeviantArt Eclipse Exodus happened.
All at once, every active artist I watch on DA made a journal entry saying they are either migrating to twitter or they posted their twitter links for the people who are leaving. So I followed a bunch of them.
It turns out artists are MUCH more active on social media than programmers are. Now my feed is filled with memes, retweets and artwork by other people I've never heard of. The specific content I wanted to see is completely buried now.
This isn't exactly a bad thing though. It's pretty cool being fed content hand-picked by people who share your interests. There's just too much of it, and it occupies the same space as that content I'm actively following.
I wish twitter had a page to only display original content. Then I could keep up-to-date on the stuff I want to keep tabs on and go back to the main feed if I want to discover something new.
This isn't exclusive to twitter either, similar platforms have the same problem and lack the solution I've provided.
Social media is great for consuming content, but terrible for distributing it.
Idk, maybe that feature does exist and I haven't found it yet. Thanks for reading anyway.
I'm not a big social media guy, but a lot of people use twitter for project updates. I thought it would be nice to get those updates sent to me directly instead of checking their pages manually.
So I created an account, followed a few game projects that I'm interested in, and all was good.
And then The DeviantArt Eclipse Exodus happened.
All at once, every active artist I watch on DA made a journal entry saying they are either migrating to twitter or they posted their twitter links for the people who are leaving. So I followed a bunch of them.
It turns out artists are MUCH more active on social media than programmers are. Now my feed is filled with memes, retweets and artwork by other people I've never heard of. The specific content I wanted to see is completely buried now.
This isn't exactly a bad thing though. It's pretty cool being fed content hand-picked by people who share your interests. There's just too much of it, and it occupies the same space as that content I'm actively following.
I wish twitter had a page to only display original content. Then I could keep up-to-date on the stuff I want to keep tabs on and go back to the main feed if I want to discover something new.
This isn't exclusive to twitter either, similar platforms have the same problem and lack the solution I've provided.
Social media is great for consuming content, but terrible for distributing it.
Idk, maybe that feature does exist and I haven't found it yet. Thanks for reading anyway.
