Notices by b9AcE (b9ace@soc.ialis.me)

Either way, I'm taking a break from here.
Don't know for how long. May be a day, may be ∞.
So long and thanks for all the fish!

Sooo, I'm thinking of giving up on this whole GNU Social/Mastodon thing.

The result has been me spending more effort to create more "content", but now in two places, to have it even more ignored in this place.

Seems the whole idea of replacing twitter as a one-way established news publishing platform for major for-profit media which already has dominance with instead focus on direct reports where available and distributed in by federation model was something I wanted, but not so many others.

Not certain, but right now feels likely.

@jeroenpraat There were a bunch of people that said they'd join in my moving when I said I'd move and even said they wanted to do a tweetstorm for it, but then they just slowly dropped of. :-/
I feel like just moving without striving without remaining to pull more people to the better platform is probably not the best long term path. I want a change, not just to change me. ;-)

@wxl I've always, even before coming here, strived to ensure I respond to everything people say to me if it's even reasonable to respond. I'm not very good at initiating conversations maybe… because most of the time I'm busy reading things to find things to post. Like… most of the time I'm even awake. @jeroenpraat

@gcupc Just checking responses, to not be rude, not "back" back...
Thanks!
I've also seen you being one of the most frequent to interact at all. It's not about one person or even three...

@jeroenpraat 10-20%?!! Oh geeee! I wish! :-D @wxl

@keed Just back to respond, because that seemed the thing to do...
Hmmm, well, I definitely do not care about *me* getting popular. I would be fine with 0 followers, as long as I knew the info I'm trying to forward gets anywhere. If someone wants to use what I wrote or my sources or anything in their own forwarding of the info, that's fine… wonderful even. But then I'd still want to know that it happens, not just nothing.

@wxl Thanks. :-)
I just... can't know what people do if there is no indication. Like... this may sound harsh, but it's the best metaphor I have: I feel like an RSS-feed sometimes and that's... cold.

@Angle Just here checking for responses, because not doing so seemed rude to me...
No, of course I tried to calibrate my feeling for the response(s) to that very specifically, but eventually it just didn't feel like even that worked...

@jeroenpraat Never been on FB or even intentionally clicked a link there (have it blocked from my network)… but I wanted to use my posts here to pull people from there, so I wrote the full stories here and linked to them here, which in the end resulted in what (to me looked like) a very dramatic decrease in distribution of… anything.
Total bummer.

@jeroenpraat Of course I had to check for responses to this, because otherwise I'd just be rude, so here's me, still not "here" ;-)...
Yeah, my main reason for moving here and pushing others to do the same was very much similar to what you describe.
I'll just say again that I didn't say "I *will*" leave, just as I feel now. Minds are fickle, but it that had been growing overwhelming for a while.

@Algot I decided I had to check for responses, because not doing so would be just plain rude, so...
I personally don't even know what "favorites" mean in practice, so I don't care about those.
It is however frustrating when I toor about things I am near certain hasn't been and won't be covered by others in English but should be… to then get neither response nor having it forwarded.
Still, just my feeling and feelings change. ;-)

@amphetamine Just so you know, you have been the one absolutely dominating my notifications-column, so nothing about that was about you.
Still, it's just a feeling of mine, so it may change... I *am* strongly pulled to keep pushing for ideological reasons, but... it's tiresome.

@shoutcacophony I decided checking for replies was only reasonable, so I'm back for that:
I thank you and I agree. It is and was for ideological reasons I wanted to move entirely here and kept pushing (as late as yesterday) for others to join me, but I just… feel like I'm now in the worst of both.
It's just feelings of course, so they may change.
Thanks again.

@wxl Decided checking for responses was reasonable so... ;-)
No, of course. I meant relative to amount of accounts direct following the account.
Still, nothing decided. Mostly a preamble to the toot where I said "We're on a break", to give context.
I was and am still ideologically very strongly inclined to keep pushing, but… I'm only human. ;-/

Either way, I'm taking a break from here.
Don't know for how long. May be a day, may be ∞.
So long and thanks for all the fish!

Sooo, I'm thinking of giving up on this whole GNU Social/Mastodon thing.

The result has been me spending more effort to create more "content", but now in two places, to have it even more ignored in this place.

Seems the whole idea of replacing twitter as a one-way established news publishing platform for major for-profit media which already has dominance with instead focus on direct reports where available and distributed in by federation model was something I wanted, but not so many others.

Not certain, but right now feels likely.

In case someone didn't know…
Awamia is a village in the Qatif region of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
https://soc.ialis.me/media/boWbouypESzgl2fKTsk

It's not e.g. in Yemen if that's why those toots are ignored.

RT @AngryQatifi@twitter.com:
#Awamia, #Qatif became a war zone in less than 6 hours since #Saudi NG entered it. Troops shoot vids and brag about it. #Awamiasiege https://soc.ialis.me/media/zLf2b-TUyotEykNgSko

@1312 100% agreement.