 So I think sometimes about why it is I don't post much on Mastodon, or what I'd need to post here more frequently. Right now I pretty much only post here when I've got something to *share*-- new art or something. Which isn't that often. Meanwhile I go on Twitter just all the time to post irrelevancies-- little jokes, stray thoughts about lunch. A vicious cycle results. I post on Twitter because I post on Twitter. I don't post on Mastodon because I don't post on Mastodon. 13 comments
Where I'm going with this: The best way to break this cycle would be if I could split my feed into "two feeds"-- like tags on Tumblr or categories in WordPress. If someone could pull up (or selectively follow!) my art stream, my social stream, or announcements stream I wouldn't have to worry about cluttering the art stream. This is a feature I've long wished for on Twitter, but in the Fediverse, maybe it's just… implementable. We can implement new features if we want. Has anyone #onhere tried?  @mcc One thing that I have seen people do is post their regular streaming updates behind a CW. That way it feels more opt-in, at least. I certainly don't mind it as much when I come across "CW: Streaming Friday" and then I can click to expand for more info or just scroll past @mcc Something that might break your posting-because-I-don't-post cycle is to at the very least try putting some of your technical shitposts here instead of on Twitter. They do numbers, as the kids say! It's a good brain hack that tricks me into spending more time on fediverse proper (instead of just internal posting on Friend Camp, for example)  Idea #2 in this vein: pin the non-streaming friday toots to your profile. Unlike Twitter, there's no restriction on the number of pinned posts you can have. Idea #3: delete the previous streaming-friday toot when you post a new one. But yes, these are all workarounds. @darius @mcc yeah, I think cws and/or hashtags are a good option here. Culturally, cws have broader use than their direct, literal interpretation, and if you use specific, consistent wording people can mute it (which is also where hashtags can be useful), and muting is less... Culturally pejorative? here than on Twitter. It's totally normal to mute stuff just because it's not your thing. As an update because some people asked: No, I don't think running multiple accounts works. In fact I *do* that, I have both this account and https://mastodon.social/@mermaidindustries . What I've found is using accounts as "categories" is confusing for me, confusing for readers and fights against every piece of UI (as after all it is a workaround for UI that is not there). If I were designing this feature I'd probably go with metadata over anything related to hashtags, but "featured hashtags" do sound like a step toward what I'm looking for here! One thing that IS unfortunate is they literally don't appear in the "normal" profile column-- I have to go to the standalone profile page. How well are featured hashtags supported elsewhere in the fediverse (IE outside mastodon.social itself)? https://tabletop.social/@vylion/108133299520449161 PS Just because I mentioned it in this thread yesterday: Actually this weekend I am streaming on SUNDAY, *not* Saturday, still at 2PM EST (11AM PST), still doing Intro to Touhou 101. |
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But there's something awkwarder: *Because* I don't post on Mastodon often, my Mastodon feed is real nice and clean. And that actually makes it hard to post trivial stuff here. If I posted here about my Saturday Twitch streams (https://twitch.tv/mcc111 , every Saturday about 2 PM EST, this Saturday I introduce myself to Touhou) it would flood out all my other posts. I feel a self-imposed pressure to maintain this pristine low-frequency-high-Signal-to-Noise streak.