So, Twitter made even more changes this week, that are definitely affecting my ability to enjoy using the site. I’ve been a steadfast Tweetdeck user for years now, since I run and manage multiple twitter accounts and use them to promote various projects to different audiences.

But with new changes—and upcoming limits—I’m finding the site a bit more cumbersome than before. It’s certainly got a few new features I appreciate – wider column views, larger media previews, the ‘see new tweets’ button to bring you back to the top of the column. But there are enough changes that are just pointless disruption that it bugs me. The big change for me is that now, my multiple accounts are shown on different views, so I can only see/watch one account at a time, despite the ability to show various ‘decks’ per account.

But it doesn’t matter anyway, because according to tweets yesterday, the Tweetdeck interface is going to be locked away only for use by blue checkmark subscribers, which I’m not going to be doing. So, yeah, I think at that point it’s going to be the final nail for Twitter for me.

Which has me kind of unsure what my primary social media presence is going to be, going forward. I still have Instagram, Mastodon, and Facebook accounts, but I wouldn’t consider any of those as my ‘primary’ interfaces to the internet. I don’t really promote my work on any of those (though I suppose I wasn’t really promoting on twitter much lately either, so…)

I probably should do a real dive into what I *need* out of a social media presence, and then evaluate the different platforms for that. Hell, I may end up just full-on going back to tumblr. Ideally, though, I think I’d still just be using this site as my Primary internet interface, and just cross-posting to the different social media platforms for those audience’s benefit.

In the meantime, I just gotta remember that I do have a Linktr.ee set up specifically for this reason, and I just gotta keep it updated with my latest contact & social info.

ANYway, my plans for this week are to make a bunch of progress on a freelance project, and move a bunch of my books and unfinished projects into a storage unit to make some room around the apartment. Stay cool, gang!

Oh, PS: I actually have FOUR blank ‘artist proof’ cards from the Cosmic set, and I’m looking at making those available for custom commissions later this month.