The Aftermath...

[catherineldf]

Honestly? I miss Twitter. I/we are still on it for brief intervals, but I deleted one account and am inactivating the other two. And I recognize that as necessary. But I miss my friends and the communities that I had out there and the ease of popping on to chat  or get news from trusted sources. I hope EM suffers horribly for, well, everything he's done to so many people.

But onward because there are no other options. So I'm out on Mastodon as clundoff on wandering shop and mastodon.lol (one of the queer and progressive instances). I'm hoping to get on the new book publishing instance soon too. I'm reconnecting with friends from the Bird app and with new folks and eventually, I think it will feel good, but right now is in the learning stages. I/Queen of Swords Press are also out on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Discord, plus a monthly newsletter. Which one would think would be enough, but the Bird app was our main channel for outreach and discoverability. Grrr.

This is likely to go on for a while. In the meantime, Thanksgiving was fairly lowkey. I learned last year that I can order in dinner from one of the co-ops instead of toiling over the stove so we did that. Worked on a puzzle, watched stuff, did a video call with Jana's family, with mixed results. I think they got an introduction to sundowning that they weren't expecting. Friday, we went to the Merriam's new place and hung out with them and their housemate/bff Kevin. We ate ridiculous amounts of yummy food and watched the Worricker trilogy, with a pause between Page Eight and Turks and Caicos for me to run Jana home and get her settled in. Then back for the next two films. It was delightful! Saturday, I had breakfast with my friend Sheila and ran some needful errands. Sunday, we visited and reconnected with our friend Jeff, who has had health issues of his own resulting in him disappearing for a while. Then more errands and edits and cooking and so forth.

Rem Wigmore's excellent Foxhunt sequel Wolfpack now has a glorious cover by artist Laya Rose and is off for formatting. I've started the preorder process and expect to have that in full swing by next week. Then its on to the next couple of book we have planned for next year and the anthology I've been wanting to do for ages. Jennie and I had another class accepted for the Loft Literary Center and I've got some ideas for nonfiction proposals of various kinds I need to get cracking on. Fiction projects are inching along slowly.  And now I need to go to bed. More news soon!

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Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>Honestly? I miss Twitter. <<

My sympathies. Losing a favorite service sucks, and there isn't a close match for Twitter.

If you haven't seen it yet, I posted Twitter Exodus Continuing. It has a review of November activities and links to news about Twitter, with an invitation for discussion or links to other relevant posts. I'm trying to help Twitter refugees network here and learn Dreamwidth. I know it's not at all the same at Twitter stylistically, but it does at least some of the things.

>> I hope EM suffers horribly for, well, everything he's done to so many people.<<

Can't say I blame you.

>>I'm hoping to get on the new book publishing instance soon too. I'm reconnecting with friends from the Bird app and with new folks and eventually, I think it will feel good, but right now is in the learning stages. I/Queen of Swords Press are also out on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Discord, plus a monthly newsletter. Which one would think would be enough, but the Bird app was our main channel for outreach and discoverability. Grrr.<<

Well, my DW fans are avid readers. Would you like to write something about it that I could post on my blog?

>>Then its on to the next couple of book we have planned for next year and the anthology I've been wanting to do for ages. Jennie and I had another class accepted for the Loft Literary Center and I've got some ideas for nonfiction proposals of various kinds I need to get cracking on. Fiction projects are inching along slowly. And now I need to go to bed. More news soon!<<

That sounds interesting.

I checked but there doesn't seem to be an active Publishing community on Dreamwidth. You might consider starting one. There are lots of authors on here, and probably some other publishers too.

Re: Thoughts

[catherineldf]

Well, I work full time, run my own business and am now my wife’s caregiver due to her developing dementia so the odds that I’m picking up anything additional are slim to none, alas. I appreciate the thoughts and I like this platform but I’ve been out here for years with no significant growth in audience. My entire audience out here came from LJ or Twitter, as far as I know. Organic growth here has been negligible for me. I do wish that wasn’t the case and I’m glad to hear that it has worked well for you though!

[hrj]

If you have time to discuss, what is it like being on two different instances? As you know, I'm on Wandering Shop (because the major social context I enjoy is the SFF community) but I worry that I have less intersection with queer spaces than I did on Twitter. Is there a way to "play in two sandboxes" without duplicating posts regularly?

[catherineldf]

The whole thing about Wandering Shop is that it is heavily moderated and there are feeds and people you can’t see when you’re on it. Mastodon.Lol has more going on and more visibility. Also, more local folks for me, which is something I liked on the Bird app. It’s also moderated, but not quite as tightly.