litherlandAs 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 __.”
Aaron Bell@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 🤫.
Triple ⁂@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.
Jean François Porchez@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.
@litherland @triple @sajatype This sharing pushes us to surpass ourselves, to question ourselves, to learn, to try to understand forms created by others.
Here, there are no global companies that promote what they call open source fonts that most often are only small pieces of the puzzle that allows them to enter even more into our privacy in order to send us their gigabit ads to earn more money.