snowflake challenge: day 2

snowflake_challenge #2 In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Alright, the more I think about it, the more I actually do have some goals for this year:

• Engage in fandom more meaningfully instead of doomscrolling so much. I need to stop leaving my headcanons and meta to languish in my drafts and start prioritizing writing and discussions instead of the quick dopamine shot of scrolling through Pinterest or hate-reading someone's Twitter.
• Make my profiles more accessible. I should finally learn how to write good image descriptions in different situations! I'm mostly interested in properly researching how people want fanart captioned, because I feel like regular accessibility guidelines aren't really geared towards something like fandom.
• Talk to people more. I'm awful and I leave fandom and irl friends on read all the time, then wonder why I'm the one who struggles making connections the most. Not something that will be fixed in a single year, but still.
• EDIT I knew I'd forget the most important one: Stop waiting too long before commenting on fics! You know if you wait too long you're just going to forget about it forever!!!

TIL free twitter rss feeds are still a thing (sort of)

Hello friends, did you know you can still get Twitter RSS feeds for free by using Nitter? Which is a cool open-source Twitter front-end that you can use to browse the evil bird site without being tracked, you can even run your own instance if you’re a nerd. If the people you need to follow are less than 23 you can build the url like nitter(.)net/user1,user2,user3 and get a single feed (or a bunch of feeds that are groups of 23, I guess). You can’t have any kind of Nitter account, it’s just an alternative way to read the website in the unfortunate case you still have a bunch of cool Twitter people you’d like not to lose track of, not a Twitter alternative (look into Mastodon instances for that). There’s even some neat browser extensions that will automatically turn all your Twitter urls into Nitter ones (usually together with similar sites for other privacy-destroying websites like Reddit and Instagram). Enjoy.