Twitter Started Good
In the beginning, starting an artist account on Twitter as bashobits was mostly good. I could focus on art and related topics, ignoring 99.9% of the other drama. Because art has enough drama already.
Being on Twitter was super helpful to share my first art collection, Seasons of Mobility
I kept sharing little snippets about my art, which is about a future 1010 years after humanity is gone, while life continues in the form of autonomous trains, buses, and cars trained on our data and culture.
Things were going in the right direction for creating and sharing the art.
Then it Went Bad
Apparently someone or something at Twitter didn't like:
A) my art
B) the snippets about my art
C) too many gm posts
D) all of the above
Here's some screenshots of what I was able to salvage from a few of my banned tweets. Don't worry, they're safe for work, unless you work at the dumpster fire formerly known as Twitter:
After getting suspended, I had multiple exchanges with nameless humans, or maybe they were bots.
The conclusion was the message above.
No details why.
Just 'case closed' and for good measure 'replies will not be monitored'.
They ended with 'Thanks, Twitter'.
Freedom was the Best
It turned out getting banned by Twitter was actually freedom.
Freedom to explore alternatives.
After stumbling around for a while and trying some different things, I ended up drifting into Farcaster and Paragraph and Base all at the same time.
I happened to join when Farcaster Frames launched, so that was a fun start:
And of course I'm sharing some of the story behind my art:
I'm just getting started with this, and it was all because I got banned from Twitter.
Thanks, Twitter.
