Notices by Taylor McCue (taylormccue@mastodon.social)

@octade I made the jump on two websites to unfollowing people and it seemed to go well.

It took a lot of time to archive my followers list by hand but it turned out to be useful.

I think I'm going to do it here too.

@octade Thank you, it was the right choice in the end and I've gained back a lot of time.

Thank you OCTADE!

@octade Its the information overload that is getting to me.

As a game developer I'm trying to post progress once a week.

What happens is then I end up obsessively reading everyones stuff on my feeds and getting emotionally upset often.

@octade @renkotsuban Thank you, I am planning on waiting 24+ hours and then maybe doing that.

I use cold turkey to block social media during my work time but sometimes when I need to have it open like for releasing a new game/translation I've looked at the damage it's done to me and questioned why I keep these feeds up at all.

@renkotsuban I appreciate that. For weeks now I've been kinda dreaming about like unfollowing and having the feeds stop since they're just too much at once and I can't stop scrolling once I start.

But I'm afraid of just like mass losing all the friendships here since I genuinely like chatting with people sometimes on here.

I think I'm going to wait 24 hours and if there isn't a massive amount of pushback do it.

@HauntedOwlbear Yeah, my issue is that once I start scrolling I have a lot of trouble starting unless I block it with cold turkey.

Mastodon is actually the least bad place but like twitter just breaks my brain being there and sometimes the flow of posts just leave me like crying or angry and it's not really anyones fault.

Hey everyone, how offended would you all be upset if I just mass unfollowed everyone ever on all social media?

I'm just tired of having a constant distracting feed of random thoughts, upsetting things, porn, cool stuff to spend money on, and distracting articles.

Like I really like being mutuals and having online friendships but the feeds just kinda really mess with my mental health in a bad way.

There is some stuff I want to show as progress that doesn't transfer well to being shown as progress.

I am slowly creeping towards being more regular with updates and working more consistently.

I will see you all next week.

@HauntedOwlbear That's awesome!

Also yeah it's nice to be here. I sometimes forget I don't have to justify my existence to just be social online.

Getting over the American forced labor mindset guilt thing is weird. x_x

@HauntedOwlbear hi! how are you?

Update: Didn't really get much done this week but I'm posting anyways to just be like hi.

@HauntedOwlbear Thank you for doing alt text for this.

See you all hopefully next weekish.

Once a week progress.

Slow week. Next week there will be a delay before I post new art so expect it in a weekish instead.

My main goal is to be consistent and not stop.

(Sorry, no alt text. I just don't have the energy for putting in a lot of descriptions for WIPs.)

@HauntedOwlbear I am back for another week.

I hope you've been okay.

@HauntedOwlbear I am going to kinda stop myself from blabbing too much since writers tend to do that and then they say stuff they don't even end up writing.

If I can keep my life together I'll be back next week and I'll let that "aaaaa I want to talk about it" power me until then.

See you!

@HauntedOwlbear Actually as a treat for myself im going to dump spoilers and context here.

Since not talking about this game is killing me.

@HauntedOwlbear I'm glad that they're working. Structurally the game is slowly morphing into project Fancy.

I keep going back and forth if I should post the text content and spoil people or not.

See you all next week.

Once a week progress dump. Hurricane fucked up my week so there isn't much. I'm fine so no worries.