Jordan Lynn Gribble @JLGribble@mastodon.art

Protip: If you're an #artist and/or art appreciator who is missing the app-that-must-not-be-named, that 'media' tab on profiles sure is nice. 😉 This is honestly a reminder for myself as well. 😂 It's really handy to be able to get a bird's eye view of what kind of art a person has posted so far without having to break your thumb scrolling through their page! 💖

I guess I bring it up because... I'm curious if anyone else has been thinking about this. And also, I've noticed some folks boosting their own posts, and in the case of one artist I follow, it actually resulted in me seeing pieces of theirs that I hadn't yet, even though they were posts that I should have seen, since I follow them. So I guess that's an okay strategy??

Right now it's not a big deal because I don't follow that many people, so my feed is easy to scroll through. I can scroll for maybe 10 minutes and get caught up to the last time I logged in. But if Mastodon continues to grow (which I think would be a good thing?) it will be harder and harder to keep up with content and people I follow... and then you just end up with a different flavor of endless scroll.

So what happens to that content that I'm not online to see when it's posted? What about people that follow me but are in drastically different time zones but would like my content if they saw it? IDK for some content it's not a big deal, but I'm mostly on social media to engage with other artists and view their work. So it's a bummer to me that an artist I like could be posting and I have no idea. :/

So obviously chronological feed is better than an algorithmic feed (especially the way insta is now, where you have to pay to get your content in front of people, and if the people you follow don't post the way insta wants, you'll never see their content). But also purely chronological easily results in missed content too, because you can't (and shouldn't) monitor your feed 24/7.

Last batch for the night, a few more abstracts from 2010. 🎨
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More #birbs! 😊
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I think I've already posted that green owl, but it fit so well with the colors here that I couldn't bear to leave it out!! 🦉
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The internet is great until you have an intense interest is something old and obscure. I can Google #SulamithWulfing and get the Wikipedia summary, but good luck finding a book about her (that is in English and not out of print). Same with some of the interesting looking books about the #Symbolist art movement. Good lord I don't want to spend $50-$100 on a book! But it's the kind of subject where those old books are the only way to learn more about it. 😭 #BookHunt #Help