Maybe it's still happening. But maybe writers, you have to love them, appreciate the ease of a prepackaged network that they could slip into, like the back of a class without being noticed until they decide to participate.

They don't want to build the classroom and the desks themselves.

#literarytwitter #literarycommunity #litworldproblems

I complain a lot about how #literarytwitter never migrated to Mastodon, but if you actually look back, you can find a lot of people who did create accounts in the November 2022 event—they just didn't stay. Probably because the literary community as a network didn't exist.

So that raises the question: at what point did the literary community develop on Twitter? It didn't exist ab initio, it developed over time. But that didn't happen here. Why?

#litworldproblems #literarycommunity

How can I grassroots build an indie lit community on Mastodon? I have a few ideas but I can use some help (open to everybody ofc):

1. More specific hashtags. Some of the general ones are spammy.

2. Dedicate my account to promoting the community 24/7. Somewhat unappealing to me, I'm lazy and I don't want to sacrifice myself especially if it never materializes.

3. Just do better about finding people. Maybe new text search will help?

#literarytwitter #litworldproblems #writingcommunity

The writing community on Mastodon really spams all the related hashtags.

Even if a community similar to the one on Twitter could coalesce using a hashtag, that would get spammed too. So this platform is never going to be an effective way to share work and discover new people effectively.

#literarytwitter #litworldproblems #writing

Obstacles to #literarytwitter moving over to the fedi:

• Loss of established network too much to consider

• Nobody else has moved here yet (I say this as somebody who has moved here)

• Mastodon is bad for sharing because your reach is so much more diminished

• Cloistered groups are choosing shared networks (group chats)

• It's aggressively white

• Mastodon is difficult to use to the point of being a hostile environment, especially for those with neurodivergence and physical disabilities

Wake me up if literary Twitter gets here.

#literarytwitter #litworldproblems

You can sign up here to join the live launch event for it which is coming up in just about an hour.

#litreading #literarytwitter #litjournal

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ilanot-review-money-virtual-launch-tickets-623808316467

The depths of the deception going on here are Ponzi level. A scam spanning the low-level litmag scene, with tentacles reaching up into the upper echelons.

I've been getting emails from C&R and Showcase, I don't know how they got my address (from Submittable, probably, but who knows). I was just deleting them, but damn, I didn't think it was this bad.

#litmags #litworld #literarytwitter #mastolit #writingcommunity

https://litmagnews.substack.com/p/showcase-magazine-ephemera-c-and

Is it that literary twitter never moved over here or that it's so much harder to coalesce on Mastodon?

It's been hard to reconstitute what I had there on here, but maybe I just haven't found it yet. I can see how self-identifying with the hashtags that Mastodon relies on for connection is anathema for a lot of writers. Who wants to get put in a box (created by four intersecting lines)?

#literarytwitter #writers #litworld #writingcommunity

So far this all seems very straightforward... beginning to get genuinely worried about tech incompetence amongst literary types. #literaryTwitter

So far this all seems very straightforward... beginning to get genuinely worried about tech incompetence amongst literary types. #literaryTwitter

#bookishadvent , #smallpress edition, day 15 is "Roving Pack," by Sassafras Lowry, a queer, #selfpublished #epistolary novel about a working-class trans teen navigating the demands of a hostile cisheterosexual world as well as the paternalistic "care" of the trans/troubled youth industry.

#bookstodon @bookstodon #bookrec #bookrecommendation #LiteraryCommunity #literarymastodon #literarytwitter #queerlit #translit

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15831052-roving-pack

#bookishadvent #smallpress edition day 7 is "The Book of Dog" by the amazing @claire ! I adored this modern-day political fable, and Oshetsky's take on animality in storytelling is a fascinating journey unto itself!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40172259-the-book-of-dog

#bookstodon #bookrec @bookstodon #litodon #LiteraryCommunity #literarytwitter #bookrecommendation

double #bookishadvent today! day 6's #SmallPress book of choice is "Split Tooth" by Tanya Tagaq, a daring, fabulist hybrid novel that conceptualizes trauma in a way I have never read before.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40044460-split-tooth

#LiteraryCommunity #litodon #bookstodon @bookstodon #literarytwitter #madodon #bookrec #bookrecommendation

double #bookishadvent today! day 6's #SmallPress book of choice is "Split Lip" by Tanya Tagaq, a daring, fabulist hybrid novel that conceptualizes trauma in a way I have never read before.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40044460-split-tooth

#LiteraryCommunity #litodon #bookstodon @bookstodon #literarytwitter #madodon #bookrec #bookrecommendation

RT @soapachu
One for #literarytwitter

Still on hiatus from freelance work, but here to connect with those of you formerly of #literarytwitter who've made the switch.

i hesitate to ask cause maybe once was enough but --- where is #literarytwitter

Reading through an article on the demise of #LiteraryTwitter authored by Jess deCourcy Hinds (LitHub), I learned there are an inordinate number of #astrophysicists on this site (LOL) & am linking my astrophysicist's father, T. G. Phillips' obit here.

Aries born on the same day, we had a 'complicated' relationship.

I credit him for my leftist tendencies, love of experimental writing and a healthy disdain for unregulated capitalism.

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-mourns-the-passing-of-thomas-g-phillips