26 april 2022
the rain has been bananas today - pouring to streaming sunshine to thundering (but not actually thundering) hail and all around and back again. the view from my apartment is the nicest, I see the graveyard and see the movement of the rain across the roof next to my place.
I've been on twitter for a really long time. I made an account in 2008 and I don't remember why, but I promptly forgot about it, until 2013, when I wanted to get a job in tech & knew the network was on twitter. I had been on g+ before which was actually the nicest place, where I made so many friendships I still maintain today.
but it's really time to go, or greatly decrease my presence on there. I want a place to write short form or long form, to connect with people, and to get into stupid jokes with people. I don't know that if I leave twitter if I'll ever have access to the kind of community I've made there, again. but I can't help but think that the future holds smaller internet circles, not bigger. honestly I'm not sure what this means for my career - it's how I've gotten literally all of my jobs since 2014.
I've started to be active in a couple more discords than I was before, full of sweet people and self moderated small communities, and that has filled a lot of the gap feeling that twitter leaves behind, for me. I think part of the real answer is going to be maintaining different little slices of my stuff in disparate places, connectable but unlikely to be connected by many but my closest buds. that's probably as it ought to be.