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In September 2021, I left the Twitch Affiliate Program for good. It is super easy to do. It took me less than an hour to complete the process.
If you are close to a payout and planning to leave, I advise waiting for the payout and leaving after the money is in your bank.
If you leave before a payout, you forfeit the money.
Continue reading “How to Leave Twitch Affiliate”The plan for 2024 is shaping up to be a significant refocus on only a few platforms and stop trying to be everywhere all the time. My time is limited, and I need to be more aware of this to stop chasing trends and the hot new thing.
I miss writing for this blog. I am going to focus on gaming content and news again. Expect to see gaming news, commentary, and reviews returning next week. This content was always the goal for the blog, and I want to make it a reality. It
I am excited about the future and making it work for the long term.
It is Creator Appreciation Week for Blaugust. A year ago, this post would have been easy. I’d make a list of all my favourite people on Twitter. Now, Twitter is X. The place is a shell of its old self, and I am no longer using it.
Some remain at the former bird site. Many are scattering for a new home. Some land on Blue Sky, which is locked behind invites. Others, like me, have moved to Mastodon, a place with its own onboarding issues. Threads isn’t going to move the needle until it is in the EU. TikTok is a mess – the shotgun-at-the-wall approach to social sharing.
The forced fragmenting of the social internet by companies looking for more money makes it difficult to follow and keep up with people with whom I used to invest a lot of time.
Continue reading “Online Creation in 2023”If you are a person who enjoys sharing your interests, you’ll do fine on Mastodon, and I suggest you should join. Like right now. Do it.
That’s my pitch. Mastodon is a place for people to connect without the influence of algorithms to support billionaires’ financial interests or the late-stage capitalist ad market.
I highly doubt I would be participating in Blaugust if I hadn’t jumped to Mastodon last year.
Sound good? Let’s make it easy for you to join, too.
Continue reading “Mastodon and Why You Should Be There”