pieartsy

illustrator, poet, ifiction writer


seeing people despairing (reasonably) that Reddit Is Fun and Tweetdeck are breaking due to heinous leadership decisions and thus this makes Reddit/Twitter unusable and awful for them has me marvelling a bit

im not a big redditor or twitter-er which I guess is why I wasn't ever aware of those tools existing and I was just experiencing those sites au natural...

And I'm wondering if I'd have been on the sites more if I used the tools...would that have been a good thing or a bad thing? Are those tools really what made the sites worth using as opposed to fucking unbearable (no shame, xkit made tumblr bearable for years)?

Well it's too late now, in any case.



ahndreklicyri
@ahndreklicyri

Twitter links are no longer searchable through Google and I assume soon other search engines anymore.

This functionally means that, unless you are on Twitter already or get a direct link from somewhere else, you cannot search up Twitter results from Google anymore. This has, as should be obvious, extreme and very detrimental effects for discoverability and growth for artists and other content creators, functionally meaning you are now getting basically zero growth from outside the app directly unless you are very known in other areas of the web, which well... stares at various sites exploding, I wouldn't put too much hope on.

Discoverability for new audiences on Twitter for most artists is functionally zero now due to all the changes they have implemented. Any artist staying on Twitter now is legitimately just wasting their time on a dying platform. Those "Twitter-Only" artists are fucked beyond any recognition now, they have ZERO chance and NEED to go to another site to have any chance to get growth.

"But Kry, Twitter still works! You're being over dramatic!"
Twitter barely works right behind all the ridiculous rate limiting, which is a whole issue in of itself that's killing artists. With this update blocking web crawlers for search engines, Twitter is basically a complete walled garden now. Everyone not inside (which is becoming a larger and larger amount of people) will NEVER be inside ever or again. Any artists staying are basically committing career suicide by completely kneecapping all of their possible growth and client pool. And no, don't ask me where to go, even I'm not fully sure yet, but staying on Twitter is a complete and full DEATH SENTENCE for artist careers.

There is no future there, only disappointment.



DeCosterMakesThings
@DeCosterMakesThings

People are, in the year of our lord 2023, rushing to sign up for a new social media platform created by Mark Fucking Zuckerberg? Did everyone just forget about literally everything to do with Facebook over the past five years? Are they only capable of hating one social media billionaire at a time?

Don't do it y'all. Threads will no doubt work better than Twitter but it's gonna be at best a lateral move.