And then went straight over to X, another social media silo, to post that his other social media account at the other silo was banned.

What a world we live in.

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neilv 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

More cyberpunk than this would be for the official author side to be a `.onion`, with a vanity subdomain that took a borrowed farm of GPUs a week to compute, and an RSS/Atom reader feed from that, plus a Fediverse/Mastodon account for the normies that you host yourself from an offshore data haven, paid for with mixed BTC, and a Reddit account just to keep some twerp from grabbing your name, all of which you access exclusively through Tor Browser, from a dedicated/compartmentalized immutable device. :)

But I'm sympathetic to authors feeling they have to be on the popular social media platforms. I don't know about big-name authors like Mr. Stephenson, but when I looked into writing fiction myself, the advice for new and less-known writers was to actively work marketing on all of Twitter/X, Instagram, especially TikTok (BookTok), and others.

(I decided it was too much demoralizing work, to not only write novels, which is grueling, but then to have to play games with TikTok influencers, if you want enough people to actually read the product of your suffering.)

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petcat 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Megacorp turf wars. It's silos all the way down.

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jasonvorhe 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

There's always nostr.

	▲	echelon 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		That's designed for nerds. Like Matrix and the other platforms that will never see mainstream adoption because they lack product management and crazy distribution. Normie design and hyper distribution always win.

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timeon 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Reminds me Shadowrun.

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lemonberry 2 days ago | parent [-]

I loved this game! I still have the original rulebook. That my AD&D 2nd ed. books, Star Frontiers and Gamma World boxed sets may be my most prized possessions.

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gopher_space 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Throw a few Uncle Al catalogs on the pile and we’d have similar childhoods. Gamma World was actually pretty amazing.

	▲	lemonberry 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Cool! I had to look "Uncle Al catalogs" up. I remember seeing ads for Car Wars, but never played it myself. There were so many neat games back then. Gamma World was really neat and timely given how fearful we all were of nuclear war. I remember watching Road Warrior at the time and thinking that Gamma World could actually be the world we live in. Dragon Magazine would occasionally have articles on Gamma World too. So much food for the young imagination.

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solardev 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Did you ever try the CRPG Shadowrun Chronicles games?

	▲	lemonberry 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I did not. I didn't get into computers until much later. Though I did die of Typhoid a bunch of times on the Oregon Trail when I was in junior high.

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debo_ 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm running a Cities Without Number campaign now, but I sure do steal a lot from Shadowrun.

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unsupp0rted 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

People go where they’re treated best

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Gibbon1 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Friend of mine complain about twitter and then turn around and send me twitter links.

Headdesk.

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the_real_cher 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

X is pretty lenient with the banning though.

It seems like the best of the worst.

	▲	numpad0 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Twitter is "lenient" with ban evasion because it runs on cognitive load and they have no time to deal with it themselves. It's just completely beyond cognitive capacity of its controlling parties(including financial owners) that it could appear that they are chill with speeches it hosts as well as unilateral cultural influencing capabilities it has.