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Re:My experiment in phonelessness was a failure. It also cha... by araes on Thursday February 08, 2024 @01:29PM (#39305607)
Having gone the other way, can comment slightly. Tried FB, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Youtube, Vimeo, Imgur, LinkedIn, and Slideshare. (Plus several forums/newsforums like Reddit, Slashdot) Mostly found out I was not humanity's demographic. I don't really like posting exercise photos. I don't really want to take pictures of my pets. I don't watch sports all that much. I don't follow celebrities much. There go most of the 10k+ categories. (re: Instagram's unlinkable explore page https://www.instagram.com/explore/ )

From my own experience, you don't actually feel very "in touch" unless you're successful. Instead, you end up making a lot of posts into the void that maybe get 10-20 views? 100 on a ++ post. Spend a month on a demo and get 1 comment. Watch nobody ever read what you wrote, while others post "does sugar go in spaghetti?" and get 60 million views and 4 million comments. [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58270497

Re:My experiment in phonelessness was a failure. It also cha... by fragmede on Thursday February 08, 2024 @03:45PM (#39307453)
what's your demo?
Re:My experiment in phonelessness was a failure. It also cha... by araes on Friday February 09, 2024 @09:14AM (#39315034)
Here's a couple recent ones:

Game I made for the Library of Congress' Game Challenge this year. Combination of a match-3 game, and a society simulation, such as the Civilization series. Part I thought was neat was Tetris style swap powers you earn with trominos and tetraminos, as well as pentaminos for structure criteria. Note: LoC wanted "simple, easy to start"

http://www.forsako.rf.gd/AmericanCities/LibOfCongressGame.ht...

Spherical planetary erosion (quick gif, video's on Twitter, I just left after the strobing X on the roof episode.)

https://i.imgur.com/ry7s6JY.gif

Least squares curve fitting with semi-arbitrary equation matching and visual points you can move.

http://forsako.rf.gd/JAMA4JS/JAMA_Test_Visual.html