not a long post here. it's just it's driving me particularly up the wall tonight. and it's keeping me from going to bed. i just keep scrolling and looking at garbage hoping something nice shows up. and it does sometimes. there's a lot of good mixed in with the bad there. which is a problem. i wish it was just somewhere else. i miss seeing new art posted on cohost. i hate the algorithm. i'm tired of being served a bunch of personal interest themed sludge and i hate that i just dig through it. i hate that i play along with the game. and most of all as i mentioned. i hate that i waste my time on it. i could be doing anything better. i could watch a fun video. i could write something or make something. i could play a game i like. i could go to bed already so that maybe tomorrow can be better.
i just wanna keep up with the people i follow and see their art and their funny jokes. i like when the for you page introduces me to new artists. it's good. i like that. what i >don't like is when it shows me things it thinks i will like because they are related to my interests, but they are just the most like. surface level uninteresting thousands of the same account type posts. it's like there's a little industry of (and i am assuming) teens or whatever who like yuri manga and get their big numbers posting screen shots of scanlations with their little captions. if you put their posts next to each other and covered up just the handle (because the pfps are usually the same shit too lol) no one would ever tell them apart. and i know this is me being a hater. and that's what gets me upset about twitter is it puts me in this mood by serving me dozens of these posts by accounts that are functionally the same and if i like a post not thinking (you know. like if i just like the source material that they are taking advantage of to get their numbers.) then i just get stuck seeing nothing but the same stuff. and then i don't see nice original art. i don't see what my friends are posting. i don't see any news it would benefit me to see.
it's like oh twitter is never going away twitter is where news happens now. yeah man.
i'm thinking to how awful i was doing mentally years ago before i removed twitter from my phone. i'm hopeful that at least for the time i'm away from it i will be happier. unburdoned. free to just do whatever makes me happy, not held down by something as stupid as a website shows me stuff that makes me angry 90% of the time on purpose to prompt engagement so they dig themselves less into a hole and i just have a horrible time forever. i'm not dealing with it anymore. i'm going to be obnoxious about it like i am when i say "yeah honestly get twitter off your phone it's so bad for you." i really feel that way. if we all stop using twitter we will be so much better for it.
so yeah. i will eventually add whatever rss feeds i can to my reader. if anyone i follow has a bluesky i'll add that there. i need access to news so i'll start. reading the papers i guess. get back into podcasts idk. because i'm not trying to be cut off from all the things happening. they're important but twitter is not where i want my news from anymore. i really want to just be completely divorced from twitter if i can. get as much that i actually like from the site literally any what at all. i'll follow patreons, ko-fi, youtube, twitch, pixiv, anything. i'll log back into deviant art if that site is up still. because there's people i care about on twitter i really hope i can find them elsewhere. and if not celebi or whatever they say.
if you send me a tweet and it isn't embedded in discord then oh well.