As the cool kids finally start rolling up, the aspects of social media I liked the least – the promotional aspects – start emerging. “Hi I’m __. I’ve done __ and I do __ and I sell __.”
@litherland they meet my good friend, “mute from public feeds” 🥰
@litherland I mean, ideally folks would tag their “promotional” toots as such. That way I could filter out just the stuff I don’t really want to see and could see any other “human connection” content available. But that’s not usually how these things work. Sooo 🤫.
@sajatype @litherland That's quite agood idea, I'll try to tag all my promotional toots

@triple @litherland 👍 I do think, though, that there is a difference between celebrating a release (which one does with friends), and trying to promote a release (which is targeting others).

It might be a fine line, but I think there is a separation.

@litherland @triple @sajatype Creators work intensely on their letterforms, typefaces, for months, years. The majority hope to live on it, just for the happiness of being able to create even more. Refusing to share new things like older things, sometimes forgotten, is to make frustration and it limits exchanges about what makes us all vibrate.
@triple @sajatype @jfporchez (I follow a lot of journalists and academics 😉)
@litherland @sajatype @triple note that journalists promote everyday their work. Super useful to understand this world. But there is people who dislike news too. We’re multiple.
@sajatype @jfporchez @triple I love news, I love journalists, I love thinking and reading about politics – just not a huge fan of braggadocio, that’s all 😊