@dansup@russell even having professionals on loop for the purpose of sharing their work and connecting with their crowd and not monetizing every post would be a win. just pure ✨human connection✨.
@dansup thoughts about follower counts: why do we still keep them?
I did some IG this week to promote a new community I'm building up right now and noticed after a day that my follower count dropped. Of course I felt bad specially as it's work from my heart that I was promoting. And very likely it was just 2 bots being closed. But I asked myself why do we keep track on those? Why not round the number up to the next 10s or 50s or so for more peace.
@dansup@pixelfed failing is absolutely fine! I failed to finish my pedagogy study … and went into web development instead. I dropped out of web development over a decade later … and made my photography passion a profession. I sometimes image myself where I could have been if I just stick to ONE plan. But the truth is: I'm all of these - and the older I get the more I recognize that this all benefit from each other.
@dansup As an European I can tell you I really don't mind getting compliments and find myself that we should praise the people around us more.
I think the problem with compliments for us often lies more in fact that we give compliments to close people and we get suspicious when a stranger (who doesn't know anything about us) compliments us. Especially from US Americans where terms like "awesome" and "great" in conversations feels overused and this devalues the compliment itself for us.
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