Solid take on recognizing when a platofrm has turned extractive. The pressure-to-compliance cycle you described is spot-on, and withdrawl as strategy instead of retreat makes sense. I've seen creative people stay way too long on platforms that clearly stopped serving them, thinking they 'had to' for reach. The ones who left earlier ended up building better elsewhere.
Calibre is great for that. I save what I want to read in a Libre office document. In Calibre I add a book (the document) then convert it to epub. From there I can fix any errors, add a table of contents and whatever else I want. Once it's saved I convert the epub to a mobi and load it onto my kindle.
I was gonna put a pic of my kindle here but apparently that's not supported.
Sorry to see you go. You do what is best for you. I'm just there to read specific people's posts and not much else. I am good at ignoring stuff so I don't let it bother me.
I was keeping an eye on my brother-in-law to see what crazy stuff he was posting (believe me, it was insane), but he died in December so I no longer need to do that. He was my age.
For me, I was shadowbanned. My feed was overrun and I took a cue from Warhammer 40k and called in an Exterminatus on it. I'd have loved to have stayed but it didn't make sense to. I might have lost reach but I gained a lot more from it than that.
A bunch of people I follow have been shadowbanned. I have bookmarked their profiles so I can just go directly to them and read. I don't have enough time in my day to fool around and hope they are in my feed. I do the same for Facebook. If it weren't for family and friends I'd have left Facebook years ago.
As for my BIL... He jumped the shark years ago, started living in a fantasy world where my husband and I were the evil villains. Kept us from my mother-in-law during her final years. I am sorry he is gone, yet relieved. His mental gymnastics were exhausting. Once my mother-in-law passed I had no real reason to stick with watching him, but I did. He didn't deserve to suffer like he did. I think a lot of his physical suffering was brought on by his mental state. He was an asshole, but he was family so he was our asshole. My Italian grandfather would have taken great delight in calling him a "jackass". I can still hear the way he'd say that word every time I think of it.
I'm going to go, sit and start reading your vampire story. I threw it into a document so I could read it on my kindle. As the day grows old my eyes can't see as well, so I increase the font size on my old kindle and then I can read as long as I want to.
Solid take on recognizing when a platofrm has turned extractive. The pressure-to-compliance cycle you described is spot-on, and withdrawl as strategy instead of retreat makes sense. I've seen creative people stay way too long on platforms that clearly stopped serving them, thinking they 'had to' for reach. The ones who left earlier ended up building better elsewhere.
Calibre is great for that. I save what I want to read in a Libre office document. In Calibre I add a book (the document) then convert it to epub. From there I can fix any errors, add a table of contents and whatever else I want. Once it's saved I convert the epub to a mobi and load it onto my kindle.
I was gonna put a pic of my kindle here but apparently that's not supported.
Cool!
Thank you for the shoutout. It’s wonderful to be thought of as a positive influence!!
Thanks for being one!
Sorry to see you go. You do what is best for you. I'm just there to read specific people's posts and not much else. I am good at ignoring stuff so I don't let it bother me.
I was keeping an eye on my brother-in-law to see what crazy stuff he was posting (believe me, it was insane), but he died in December so I no longer need to do that. He was my age.
I'm really sorry to hear about your BIL.
For me, I was shadowbanned. My feed was overrun and I took a cue from Warhammer 40k and called in an Exterminatus on it. I'd have loved to have stayed but it didn't make sense to. I might have lost reach but I gained a lot more from it than that.
A bunch of people I follow have been shadowbanned. I have bookmarked their profiles so I can just go directly to them and read. I don't have enough time in my day to fool around and hope they are in my feed. I do the same for Facebook. If it weren't for family and friends I'd have left Facebook years ago.
As for my BIL... He jumped the shark years ago, started living in a fantasy world where my husband and I were the evil villains. Kept us from my mother-in-law during her final years. I am sorry he is gone, yet relieved. His mental gymnastics were exhausting. Once my mother-in-law passed I had no real reason to stick with watching him, but I did. He didn't deserve to suffer like he did. I think a lot of his physical suffering was brought on by his mental state. He was an asshole, but he was family so he was our asshole. My Italian grandfather would have taken great delight in calling him a "jackass". I can still hear the way he'd say that word every time I think of it.
I'm going to go, sit and start reading your vampire story. I threw it into a document so I could read it on my kindle. As the day grows old my eyes can't see as well, so I increase the font size on my old kindle and then I can read as long as I want to.
You threw it onto your Kindle?!
Holy shit. That's awesome!
Maybe once the game references are scrubbed, we'll do an eBook first and see how that does and then maybe go to print.