why i might migrate to this website and not something snazzy like co-host

[highimpactsex]

no more tweets.....

because i'm tired of social media platforms that might burn down to the ground and i just wanna bloggggg. twitter is an exhausting microblogging platform that's all about status updates and the content moderation there, even before the muskrat came in, stinks... who in the world thinks a twitter alternative is a great idea lol

i've noticed that my twitter is really just me writing macroblog posts and i've been asked by people to please archive my threads because they're so informative and weird, which raises the question "why in the world am i not blogging?" i tried looking for alternatives and ended up, as some folks know, on twitter's newsletter revue. blogging again there, amid in a newsletter form, is kinda great and it made me interested in writing again. at that time, i didn't know dreamwidth was a thing but i imagine i could've done my real deal blogging here.

while writing my saihate no ima post, i vomited this paragraph:

Saihate no Ima taught me that I don’t really care about social media. Sure: I’ve made friends, found a partner, and even learned new things from Twitter and elsewhere. But those joys are long past me. I don’t think I’ve become a boomer in this regard; I just think social media is pretty pointless and dehumanizing. Unless there’s good reason to sign up, I’ll pass.

since i've made my intentions clear on twitter too, i figured i should reserve an account here. also, you may be wondering why i switched domains/accounts from kastelpls to highimpactsex. you see, i'm a 1000iq genius and thought making an account meant i can switch my url later. i was correct but it cost money and it's tied to the account name anyway.

everyone will be BOTHERED if i don't use highimpactsex, it's too legendary a twitter username. i'm pretty sure nobody even recognizes my handle name is KASTELPLS anyway.

to the people who wish i were on a bigger platform

i recognize some folks will be disappointed that i've chose to migrate here to the web 1.0 boondocks. it is definitely harder to "discover" me if i chose a platform that's ancient as hell and not tumblr/co-host. i'm fine with Losing My Audience to be quite honest. but i know it isn't entirely about me: there's folks who look up to me because i'm an open left communist queer doing japanese media.

there's people too who are just interested in what i have to say: pc98, rpg maker games, visual novels etc.

and there's also the fact i'd be losing out NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES. i'm mutuals with a lot of incredibly talented people and i don't expect i'll influence them to come here lol. it's possible that they always wanted to work with me -- i know that happened to me since i got my recent job from being a Twitter Poster.

but i think, as much as the opportunities and friendship/role model stuff is great, big platform spaces are bad. while it allows people from other spaces to find me, i don't feel like i was ever in a community. even the idea of "anitwitter" is just an artificial illusion. rightwing weirdos talk about how twitter is an "echo chamber" but it's more like you're in a giant school cafeteria with cliques that blur into each other. that always annoyed me.

it feels like twitter is designed for us to dunk on whoever the main character is. that's not a community but a school caste-like platform. there's definitely other spaces i could've gone into like tumblr but eh. i don't know if i want a better mastodon or cohost either. microblogging never felt right to me, especially since i want to share my thoughts. as i did more blogging (micro and macro), i realized i just wanted a blogging space where i could have looser standards than what i've had for professional reasons. the whole "we're all in one timeline/community" deal was just forced onto me.

i recognize the history of livejournal is no different: there's feuds in school castes and all that. but one thing i do appreciate with LJ (and tumblr) is how communities separate and it's not like one giant space. this is what i crave for, methinks. i just want to post more words than simply repost.

current plans

so right now, i started my dreamwidth as a continuation of my twitter antics. writing on dreamwidth with this amazing "rich text" editor has put me back into the age of geocities and miniclip lmao. this is the finest and most exquisite retro design ever: seeing that web 1.0 "insert picture" and "insert url" logos made me think i'm a young shoujo again. thank god this website is just a livejournal fork.

i'll still use twitter but i plan to use it less, even if the platform doesn't die out or whatever. i'll just shitpost till i get suspended, i guess. fuck twitter lmao.

you might wonder about my blogging on revue. fret not if you already read my blog posts there: i'll keep writing All The Dank Posts there, fully fleshed out reviews and all that jazz. now, you don't need to read my lower-caps nonsense here. you can just subscribe to that and still not miss out my Content(tm).

i'll also keep collaborating with amelie doree for epic visual novel youtube shit. anyone who wishes to collaborate with me can go here.

anyone who wants to join my expansive #jp_media discord can either comment here or tweet at me. i'll still check invites.

for this dreamwidth space, i'm gonna write what i usually thread about: books, visual novels, anime, all that stuff -- but all in one space for everyone to cringe at. am i describing an aniblog from the year 2009? yes. moogy's blogging cringe already, so why can't i?

i'm gonna feel myself out on this platform. i know there's this community tab that might be intriguing? i'll have to ask my pals who dreamdwith better than i to know what's up with that; it would be cool to have a japanese media blogging community going around here. not gonna ask people to join me in the year where jimmy neutron was the shit but if there's mutuals, lemme know.

and oh, just one more thing...

anyway, i feel like i should have moved out years ago from twitter. i was already reducing a lot of my activities on the site; i limited myself to checking some people and that's it. and you know what, that's actually how i used to blog and check websites: i'll read a few articles from other folks and call it a day. my twitter behavior is remarkably similar to my web 1.0 days except i replaced "websites" with "accounts".

so why don't i cut to the chase and have more websites to visit? not just twitter but my dreamwidth and other people? let's bring back rss while we're at it. i want the web 1.0 back, just a bit more unified so we can still communicate together despite on being different spaces.

in the end, we just wanna grill in our own spaces we choose to hang out at. and find new spaces while we're at it. no need for twitter or other cringe like that!