Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾Jan 16, 2023

I think #Mastodon is great for the #WritingCommunity

As a reader, I have found many fascinating newsletters, blogs , Mastodon accounts #books and authors.

As a writer my newsletters & #blog posts are being read. People have even asked me about my barely-publicized #scifi novels. People have actually subscribed to my Substack via Mastodon!

I hope other writers are feeling the same benefits.

#Writer #Reader #Author

Show threadChris MahanJan 16, 2023
@liztai For me mastodon is not really working for me... I suspect it's me, but I cannot really tell. I was also souring on twitter since january of 2022. I feel I need to do longer, more crafted stories. But I also love the sense of friendships with the people I interact with online, and twitter still has that much better. On mastodon I feel terribly adrift.
Show threadElizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@chris_mahan Just seeing your feed, and you need to use more hashtags, and you need to create a feed full of people you like. It takes time, I guess!
Jan 16, 2023 at 4:46amWeb
Show threadChris MahanJan 16, 2023
@liztai Yeah, I've been told this before, but ai loathe hashtags with a passion, seeing them only as some artifact of search optimization which machines should be doing :(
Show threadElizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾Jan 16, 2023

@chris_mahan You loathe hashtags, you mean? I wasn't sure at first what you mean by AI lol.

Look at it this way - either you control your feed or the alogirthm controls it. Hashtags are just a way to build it. Put it at the bottom of your text, perhaps? Or if you want, engage with people more so they can find you :)

Show threadChris MahanJan 16, 2023

@liztai Ha, yes, I loathe hashtags, not AI ( I mean I think I loathe AI too 🤣)

but yes, like you said.

I do try to engage with people, yes, and keep my feed clean :)

Show threadElizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾Jan 16, 2023
@chris_mahan the hashtags will help people find you. :) What is it about hashtags that you don't like btw
Show threadChris MahanJan 16, 2023

@liztai

Hashtags, in my mind, are like a vertical classification system that is like its own ad hoc channel that anyone can see on demand, but not in an established way, and it creates ephemeral contact points between humans, and what appears in hashtags isn't vetted like reposts or mentions. I guess there is a wildness to the hashtags result that I am not keen on. I do use the Poetry hashtag occasionally.