I complain a lot about how #literarytwitter never migrated to Mastodon, but if you actually look back, you can find a lot of people who did create accounts in the November 2022 event—they just didn't stay. Probably because the literary community as a network didn't exist.

So that raises the question: at what point did the literary community develop on Twitter? It didn't exist ab initio, it developed over time. But that didn't happen here. Why?

#litworldproblems #literarycommunity

How can I grassroots build an indie lit community on Mastodon? I have a few ideas but I can use some help (open to everybody ofc):

1. More specific hashtags. Some of the general ones are spammy.

2. Dedicate my account to promoting the community 24/7. Somewhat unappealing to me, I'm lazy and I don't want to sacrifice myself especially if it never materializes.

3. Just do better about finding people. Maybe new text search will help?

#literarytwitter #litworldproblems #writingcommunity

The writing community on Mastodon really spams all the related hashtags.

Even if a community similar to the one on Twitter could coalesce around a specific hashtag, that would get spammed too. So this platform is never going to be an effective way to share work and connect with like-minded people.

Sometimes the algorithm did good work.

#literarytwitter #litworldproblems #writing

Obstacles to #literarytwitter moving over to the fedi:

• Loss of established network too much to consider

• Nobody else has moved here yet (I say this as somebody who has moved here)

• Mastodon is bad for sharing because your reach is so much more diminished

• Cloistered groups are choosing shared networks (group chats)

• It's aggressively white

• Mastodon is difficult to use to the point of being a hostile environment, especially for those with neurodivergence and physical disabilities

Wake me up if literary Twitter gets here.

#literarytwitter #litworldproblems

The depths of the deception going on here are Ponzi level. A scam spanning the low-level litmag scene, with tentacles reaching up into the upper echelons.

I've been getting emails from C&R and Showcase, I don't know how they got my address (from Submittable, probably, but who knows). I was just deleting them, but damn, I didn't think it was this bad.

#litmags #litworld #literarytwitter #mastolit #writingcommunity

https://litmagnews.substack.com/p/showcase-magazine-ephemera-c-and

Is it that literary twitter never moved over here or that it's so much harder to coalesce on Mastodon?

It's been hard to reconstitute what I had there on here, but maybe I just haven't found it yet. I can see how self-identifying with the hashtags that Mastodon relies on for connection is anathema for a lot of writers. Who wants to get put in a box (created by four intersecting lines)?

#literarytwitter #writers #litworld #writingcommunity

#bookishadvent , #smallpress edition, day 15 is "Roving Pack," by Sassafras Lowry, a queer, #selfpublished #epistolary novel about a working-class trans teen navigating the demands of a hostile cisheterosexual world as well as the paternalistic "care" of the trans/troubled youth industry.

#bookstodon @bookstodon #bookrec #bookrecommendation #LiteraryCommunity #literarymastodon #literarytwitter #queerlit #translit

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15831052-roving-pack