I've always thought it was tacky to ask for boosts to get visibility, and yet here I am.
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@WanderingInDigitalWorlds My apologies for breaking etiquette, my goal is to reach writers and so I just picked any hashtag related to writing I was familiar with. I’ve removed all but “writers” and “beta”.
Aside from the misuse of hashtags, is there any other reason my post would cause suspicion for you?
The app is a personal project motivated by a novelist friend of mine, and I’m trying to reach others like them specifically to give people an enabling and safe tool to use.
@TheEjj The initial opening post felt really off...It activated my feelings of doubt. As co-opting unrelated hashtags is one of the common behaviors I see malicious actors use to broadcast their bait for users.
While you might have good intentions, the vibes were off and it will take time for me to get over this visceral feeling.
Sadly, I can't really offer anything more concrete to work with (not without a lot of thinking). Don't know if I have the spoons for that today.
However, I do hope that your project does get off the ground and become a great thing for writers to use.
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@TheEjj The initial opening post felt really off...It activated my feelings of doubt. As co-opting unrelated hashtags is one of the common behaviors I see malicious actors use to broadcast their bait for users.
While you might have good intentions, the vibes were off and it will take time for me to get over this visceral feeling.
Sadly, I can't really offer anything more concrete to work with (not without a lot of thinking). Don't know if I have the spoons for that today.
However, I do hope that your project does get off the ground and become a great thing for writers to use.
@WanderingInDigitalWorlds Thank you very much for the correspondence! You go restore those spoons, and I’ll make sure I’m more careful about how I go about pushing it when it’s ready for public use.
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@WanderingInDigitalWorlds Thank you very much for the correspondence! You go restore those spoons, and I’ll make sure I’m more careful about how I go about pushing it when it’s ready for public use.
@TheEjj You're welcome! I'm glad that I didn't cause too much offense, as I felt that my words might have been too harsh.
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I've always thought it was tacky to ask for boosts to get visibility, and yet here I am. If this post doesn’t apply to you, please boost so it can get in front of the right people.
Writers of Mastodon (who use a Mac), I am looking for a handful of people who can join the closed beta for my new creative writing app, WordFlow next week.
Details about the app in the thread.
1/7@TheEjj Boosted. I'm interested, but I don't use a Mac. Good luck!
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I've always thought it was tacky to ask for boosts to get visibility, and yet here I am. If this post doesn’t apply to you, please boost so it can get in front of the right people.
Writers of Mastodon (who use a Mac), I am looking for a handful of people who can join the closed beta for my new creative writing app, WordFlow next week.
Details about the app in the thread.
1/7@TheEjj I'm interested if still appropriate. Only saw this yesterday. It seems libranet.de and mastodon.social don't federate well. -
I've always thought it was tacky to ask for boosts to get visibility, and yet here I am. If this post doesn’t apply to you, please boost so it can get in front of the right people.
Writers of Mastodon (who use a Mac), I am looking for a handful of people who can join the closed beta for my new creative writing app, WordFlow next week.
Details about the app in the thread.
1/7@TheEjj Not actively writing now, so the closed beta isn’t for me. But I’d be interested in the open one. Do I follow you or do you have a software focused Mastodon account?
Have Scrivener - but it just started updating when I started it, to show I haen’t used it for some time…
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@TheEjj Boosted. I'm interested, but I don't use a Mac. Good luck!
@SusanneDoering I’m hoping to get it to other platforms in the future. I don’t want to gate keep by having it be Apple only.
Thanks for the support!
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@TheEjj I'm interested if still appropriate. Only saw this yesterday. It seems libranet.de and mastodon.social don't federate well.
@noam it is very much still appropriate. I ended up delaying the beta a bit since my original post, and now I’m set to start the closed beta this coming Friday. If you DM me your Apple ID, or send it through the site wordflow.page, I’ll add you to the list!
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@TheEjj Not actively writing now, so the closed beta isn’t for me. But I’d be interested in the open one. Do I follow you or do you have a software focused Mastodon account?
Have Scrivener - but it just started updating when I started it, to show I haen’t used it for some time…
@photovince This is the account to follow! You can also keep an eye out on the site, wordflow.page for updates.
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I've always thought it was tacky to ask for boosts to get visibility, and yet here I am. If this post doesn’t apply to you, please boost so it can get in front of the right people.
Writers of Mastodon (who use a Mac), I am looking for a handful of people who can join the closed beta for my new creative writing app, WordFlow next week.
Details about the app in the thread.
1/7I’m willing to give it a spin. I have written a similar tool in the distant past, so I know a few things I can test (performance was an issue in my tool).
I will add that that I can’t guarantee any type of commitment besides the first two hours due to prior commitment.
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I’m willing to give it a spin. I have written a similar tool in the distant past, so I know a few things I can test (performance was an issue in my tool).
I will add that that I can’t guarantee any type of commitment besides the first two hours due to prior commitment.
@DevWouter Oh my god tell me about it. I spent a shocking amount of time trying to get my text engine to be performant, and the smarter I tried to be about it, the worse I feel like I made things.
If you can DM me your Apple ID email, or send it through the wordflow.page site, I’ll add you to the beta. Any feedback is welcome!
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@DevWouter Oh my god tell me about it. I spent a shocking amount of time trying to get my text engine to be performant, and the smarter I tried to be about it, the worse I feel like I made things.
If you can DM me your Apple ID email, or send it through the wordflow.page site, I’ll add you to the beta. Any feedback is welcome!
I send you my apple ID.
As for the performance I can already respect the time you spend on it.
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I've always thought it was tacky to ask for boosts to get visibility, and yet here I am. If this post doesn’t apply to you, please boost so it can get in front of the right people.
Writers of Mastodon (who use a Mac), I am looking for a handful of people who can join the closed beta for my new creative writing app, WordFlow next week.
Details about the app in the thread.
1/7@TheEjj This sounds extremely cool. If you have a Tumblr account, that's the first place I'd post it -- that's where a fairly large swathe of fandom is, and this app has fandom written all over it. Er, so to speak.
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@TheEjj This sounds extremely cool. If you have a Tumblr account, that's the first place I'd post it -- that's where a fairly large swathe of fandom is, and this app has fandom written all over it. Er, so to speak.
@dsalo That’s a very appreciated tip! I don’t have a tumblr account, but I’ll see about spreading word of it around there during the open beta!
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