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quarklynx · 1 year ago

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God, if Tumblr goes down for real I don't even know where I'll go. Twitter is an active dumpster fire, Instagram and TikTok are algorithm-riddled nightmares, and it's just plain depressing trying to pick one of the hundreds of alternative sites that are vying for the userbases of these massive social media platforms that have been hyper-monetized into their death throes

#lynx thinks #bluesky still requires an invitation and the other ones ive seen just havent been catching on the way other have #at this rate tiktok might outlast the others as far as influence goes and it's arguably the worst one #and i say this as someone who uses and posts to tiktok #a social media site with ONLY video on the platform is severely limiting. especially for visual artists like me #if you don't animate then your stuff is gonna have a hard time getting noticed in a video format #instagram is similarly limited in that you can only post images as the primary portion of the post #theres no option to just post text #and none of the tiny ones have the same reach as any of the larger ones did which is why no one joins #and because no one joins it doesnt have the userbase to give posts reach the way other sites did #social media is being rapidly killed by corporations trying to squeeze every cent possible out of their users #i want to stream and i want to gather a community of people who like what i do but HOW can i do that when there's no good website for it #it used to be you could just post your stream schedule to twitter and that was enough #i just... im so tired. it feels like ive had a stack of rugs pulled out from under me one at a time

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