Lesley Carhart Nov 11, 2022

I don't think I am going to mind much if birdsite dies and I am not artificially pseudo-famous anymore. It might make it harder for me to make my side income, but I will deal somehow.

It's just really surreal to find out that people who are actually real-life famous and also had a massive impact on my life are following my shitposts - and sometimes I have had so much traffic in the feed I did not even notice it.

I feel like I would have said something smarter, or more meaningful, or posted less hamster photos. Even though people like them!

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@hacks4pancakes o.O

There was side income possible from Twitter?

h.f.s. that site was even worse than I realized.

I'll spare you any personal attacks.

This just relit a fire under something I was needing to write (but not wanting to) that I guess I need to redouble my efforts on *deeply pained sigh*.

Show threadLesley Carhart Nov 11, 2022
@byterhymer Yeah, so... I go to a lot of community cons, volunteer, run clinics and stuff. I run a virtual one. It ends up costing a lot of money, so I usually try to make that back doing paid speaking engagements for companies and for-profit organizations. It is how I afford to do that stuff. So Twitter was an important marketing tool for me.
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@hacks4pancakes I don't know where my 2006 REcon.cx staff badge ended up.

So, you're not unique in the having contributed to meaningful events (without getting into exhaustive lists) but twitter and marketing smdh.

Do you remember why dot-bomb happened?

Do you remember why Google was basically THE ONLY search engine which survived it?

Hint: it wasn't because they had AdSense/AdWords/Analytics.

Reinventing the flat tire is how most lose out, repeating mistakes learned the hard way, again.

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@byterhymer I certainly did not claim to be unique in volunteering at conferences. It's just simple finances. Money in, money out. I have to make a living. I would not get the gigs I get without having an active, well-designed presence across a multitude of social sites. I didn't make the game, I just am forced to play it.
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@hacks4pancakes "Don't hate the game, hate the game developers"?

I haven't seen that dead horse beaten in an awfully long time, congrats.

Please, good luck in catching up, but I can't follow you.