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No Idea What I'm Doing
I'm gonna try... try real hard... to start using Imzy more. I think I like the layout? But I have no flippin' clue what I'm doing here, or really how to use it. Layering in the whole individual community part on top of just posting to a timeline makes it feel weird to me, like I'm supposed to maintain some sort of codified blog here rather than just ramble in the dark like I do on Twitter and Facebook.
But maybe that's what makes Imzy cool? I just don't know. I feel old.
I remember trying out Ello for a few months before just sort of fading away from it. It's not bad in any way, but I've already built a community of friend/followers on Facebook and Twitter, and it's hard to step over to a new platform that ends up feeling empty because no one interacts with me there.
Platforms like Ello and Imzy are a lot easier to adopt for authors who already have a dedicated fan base. It's simple(ish) for someone like Kevin Hearne or Chuck Wendig to drop into a new social media platform, because they can just ping their fanbase and have an instant group of people to interact with. That's not so much the case for me, so we'll see if I can tough it out here on Imzy long enough to build that network.




I think part of it is reconfiguring your brain to move away from the "only Twitter can be like Twitter" mentality they spent years cultivating. I use my page for all kinds of random bits, sort of a mix between Twitter and Facebook.
Like, I can be all "A person just walked by wearing an octopus. O_o" and let that stand, or if I'm seized by rant-mode, I can do that without superspamming followers like on Twitter with numbered blocks of 140.
I am for sure going to work hard to get Imzy out there, though. I am so all over it.
I guess what I'm trying to figure out is where to post stuff? I don't just have my own "page" that's the "All Luke, All The Time" page, so I have to create a community (like I did here)?
That's the hardest thing to wrap my head around is the idea that I don't just have a basic me-page that's the basis for everything I post.
In a lot of ways, Imzy kind of feels like a reconfigured Reddit to me. Potentially without the awfulness, but still that sort of scenario.