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>In my experience over the last decade there are fewer and fewer ways to find a community and any success as a creator of any kind without getting corralled int
by rpastuszak 5y ago
>In my experience over the last decade there are fewer and fewer ways to find a community and any success as a creator of any kind without getting corralled into social media and furthermore getting corralled into being a daily active user / consumer as to not get shadow banned by any given app.
Haha, my first thought after reading this comment was that I could've written it myself. I miss internet forums.
Also, I'm much more creative when I own the content I make. Doomscrolling is one thing, feeling like you're wasting your life by getting sucked into the dopamine/reward loop, another.
Reaching people is hard, because social is the main channel, but I'm experimenting with:
1) helping people (everyone) to reach me directly:
https://sonnet.io/posts/hi/ https://sonnet.io/posts/hi/
So far, I've met so, so many fascinating people this way and the depth of conversations I've (or just feedback) doesn't even compare to anything I could ever do on, say, Twitter.
2) content syndication
This one's a bit harder as there's a certain amount of bureaucracy involved
(https://mxb.dev/blog/syndicating-content-to-twitter-with-netlify-functions/ https://mxb.dev/blog/syndicating-content-to-twitter-with-net...)
I found a perfect solution to Twitter blocking my account for whatever reason the might have:
1. go to https://www.potato.horse/shhh https://www.potato.horse/shhh
2. scroll to the bottom of the page
3. roll over the Twitter button
If you're on mobile, here's the video: https://twitter.com/rafalpast/status/1457702588787433473?s=20 https://twitter.com/rafalpast/status/1457702588787433473?s=2...