Reflections: 2 Jan 2017

An entire 24 hours of the new year have passed, and I feel like I am on the best of amphetamines; though I slept until noon, I poured myself into graphics-design and planning and scheduling, and taking a good long look at the social media silos to which I've attached myself. Twitter is losing its royal crown of internet centralisation, and YouTube is building more and more requirements on content creators that stifle creativity and profitability, and with how small my following is, currently, I need to reach as many people as possible at every turn.

So I'm climbing out of the silos, and making use of the different new social networks to their advantages and using integrations between services where ever possible: I've put a goodly bit of work into assuring that Twitch and Patreon integrate with my Discord server, and opened it up to a number of new people for the purpose of using it for its intended purpose: gaming. I'll be using #Minds for long-form social network communications, and keeping the #Twitter and #Facebook share-buttons enabled for every post in order to reach as many people as possible with this format. Pre-recorded and mastered video production will still be published on #YouTube, but casual streaming of my daily gaming practice is going to move to #Twitch in order to produce regular daily content. And #Gab will be taking the special place of holding asynchronous discussions with people, where #Twitter has been letting me down, and #Discord is all but replacing #Skype and #GoogleHangouts -- with only video conferencing keeping the latter in my wheelhouse.

And then I just streamed. I dropped all the long-term planning and strategising and picked up a game I'd not played before in order to get my mind off things. Only four people showed up for the show, but that's not zero people -- and so, the show must go on.