Kinda. Today I finally bit the bullet and cut myself free from checking and updating the OpenCommish Twitter account. The priority to keep up with it was falling, it felt like a chore (for something no one ever asked me to do), and I was really tired of having to log into Twitter in this day and age. It didn’t feel fun anymore, not like it did when I used an app to easily sync where I left off and make it easy to RT and check on things. The loss of that destroyed any desire to use the site at all. It was becoming a burden, and the only thing that was keeping me going was knowing so many other accounts doing the same thing had stopped operating or it wasn’t their main focus. I wanted to keep helping those who are too scared to leave the platform.
That’s not to say it’s completely dead. Although Mastodon is out for me (if you want to follow something to see open commissions, follow the hashtags), I did make a feed which I will continue to tweak as need on Bluesky. It does as the name OpenCommish has always implied, and shows all the latest posts that use the related hashtags. I’ll need to find the right balance between legitimate posts and spam. I think overall, seeing artists blossom on Bluesky really made me think that giving people any reason to continue to use Twitter was me contributing to the problem. It’s so hard for me to tell if Twitter will actually collapse, or if my wish to see it happen clouds my judgement and it’s just as popular now as ever. Who knows, when you ban millions of users from an entire country how many people can really be left?
Thus, that is it. The end of an era. I’ve reached what feels like the end of the road of my youth where I had so much energy to reach out and help others with only the sacrifices of my own time and mind. I don’t know what I’ll actively do next, either for myself or for others, but I hope that I can see to the end of my life the growing support of people who wish to artistically create what only humans can.