Comments on: 📣 BlenderNation and Blender Artists Twitter Feeds at Risk

By: claas e kuhnen

claas e kuhnen — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 04:04:15 +0000

In reply to MFletcher. just the financial aspect already should be logical enough I don't know why people get so irritated

By: MFletcher

MFletcher — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 18:03:44 +0000

BN costs time and money to maintain and run, something for which I am cognizant of and grateful for.

This is your time. Your money.

BN represents the primary form by which I find paid content for Blender that I purchase.

Twitter initiating a pay-money-to-continue-business-as-usual ultimately means BN would have to pay out of pocket to the ex-richest person in the world, which inevitably means less time and effort is spent towards BN doing the thing that BN wants to do, furthermore, at the ill-conceived whims of the world's ex-richest man.

I can understand the decision to add options to your social media engagement. It's just pure capitalism at play, after all.

We're cheering for you.

By: claas e kuhnen

claas e kuhnen — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 17:30:20 +0000

Makes sense Bart - I started to move away from Twitter myself simply because of stability and future scalability reason.

LinkedIn is well a much better replacement.

With Mastodon you also can run it yourself and are not victim to what Twitter will do.

I do think Twitter is too big to fail - but the API changes are significant.

By: Peter Mullins

Peter Mullins — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:53:45 +0000

I try create a account in Mastodon and was imposible, not a option to replace Twitter.

By: sharetextures

sharetextures — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 11:18:03 +0000

I was reading comments and it's interesting some people take it very personally :)

It's just a new social media account. Keep it, easy fellows.

By: Daniel Oakfield

Daniel Oakfield — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 13:29:03 +0000

I wish I had an invite to mastodon.art... also considering joining mastodon.social
The future is not on Twitter, is better to start in new venues.

Bart, try to ignore the people judging your action!

By: Nvmb3rth30ry

Nvmb3rth30ry — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 13:26:19 +0000

Boy I can't believe the level of hate here for a simple social media policy change. Stick to your guns Bart, you should be able to change policy without having to endure so much whining and judgement. You run a great site, keep up the great work.

By: Brian Lockett

Brian Lockett — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 22:31:47 +0000

I'm glad for this new option. Thankful, really. Due to auto-moderation and a simple misunderstanding, my Twitter account got permanently banned and they won't let me make another account. It's forced me to move to Mastodon, and while it's a bit...unusual, I've grown rather accustomed to it. I'll look forward to joining BlenderNation on Mastodon! Also, don't look for fights, folks. It presents our community with an unwelcoming, divisive vibe. Bart's free to briefly state part of his purpose for offering this new route for hosting a BlenderNation following. I think Bart has long proven by now that he's always done what he feels towards this community's best interest, short-term and long-term, and this BlenderNation ship is his baby to steer, to begin with. Who are we to question his decision? You won't change anyone's mind on the matter, anyways, so why poke at it? Just accept the new Mastodon option as available and realize that the Twitter option is still available. Adding the new network option here is positive.

By: Brian Lockett

Brian Lockett — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 22:25:30 +0000

In reply to Morten Fjellheim. Not sure this is even a move that favors any particular political leaning in life, since people all across whatever gamut you can think of all have their reasons for not warming up to Elon "Citizen Kane" Musk doing all what he's doing. But I agree. Folks should stop looking for debates all the time. It's not healthy.

By: Morten Fjellheim

Morten Fjellheim — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 11:23:49 +0000

Hey guys, remember this is not a place to discuss politics. As Bart have stated, the move does not include "moving" away from Twitter, it is to be available for users on both playforms. Lets not make this into a discusion on wether the right or left is correct. I too have an opinion on that, and i my fingers is itching to join the discusion. But let us take that somewhere else!!