Has anyone here done or helped with at least one reasonably successful Kickstarter campaign? for a consumer product? Someone said they had a few months back, and I’ve misplaced my notes about it.
@shoq The old crowd on Twitter could have helped with all that. IronSpike is on BlueSky if you want to ask her anything about that, though plenty of people in the comic book crowd have done successful kickstarters, too. Most of them ended up on BlueSky too.
Fucking language barriers. After 4 days of trying to arrange shipping for samples, this woman in Shandong says “sorry, our Alibaba writer Engish not so good.”
No shit. They wrote “Minimum Order: 10” when they meant “10 pallets.” Doh!
And I have increasingly limited patience for “influencers” who discovered a talent for making people laugh using sources from another Tweetdeck column, or spewing out time-tested virtual signaling designed to project their imaginary moral center to their imaginary online friends.
I am so fed up with seeing the same old twitter celebrities post the same shit they’ve been posting for years. The pretexts may change, but the snide snark and sardonic humor are just the same old bits reworked for a new topic. It’s like so much stand-up comedy now. The same acts reworked over and over, with occasional flourishes of brilliance.
The fact is, social media has been stagnant for well over a decade, but everyone is so addicted to it, they rarely step back and ask WTF any of this is for, or if it’s even productive for society or their own lives. The only new things to have happened in years were TikTok and Elon Musk. Ho hum.
And let’s stop calling social media a place to keep up with “news” when what we mean is keeping up with opinions about news. Politics isn’t really the blood sport it once was anymore. Social media ‘about politics’ is.
I think the next sea change of behavior will be when @Mastodon, #bluesky and @threads are bridged, and a Groups protocol matures. They will provide a kind of selectivity of topic, qualifications, and behavior. People are welcome to lurk, but what and how they engage will drive popularity.
So much of social media is hit and run. People stare at their screens, thinking up funny, salient or poetic things to say, and taking great satisfaction if it gets a few responses (that they often never read). There has to more to social media life than this.
With apologies to @morningmika, we need a national movement that compels retailers, makers, and other commercial establishments to “Show your values.” Not to sow more divisions, but rather to encourage a more collective spirit and affinity that radical conservatism has crapped all over for the last 60+ years.
I’m always a few years behind the stylish TV watchers (on purpose), so I just watched the first season of Hacks. I don’t like most TV dramedy, but this show is brilliant. I almost choked on more than a few lines.
Few things in life make you feel as violated as a stolen bike. No matter how many times it happens. This is my fourth. But I’ve probably forgotten a few.
Argggh Nothing ruins a lovely morning like going out for a bike ride (first since my foot surgery), only to find the bike was stolen right out of my carport overnight. I blame Republicans. Because I can.
I am negotiating a pre and full production buy of some melamine furniture board with a company in Shandong, China. I am learning the hard way (once again) just why some industrial business brokers do so well. Just getting the basic specs agreed upon requires a lot of time zone and language drama.
Why not the US, you ask? Because there are no afforable producers of this shit here. American companies that don’t buy from China typically make their own panels from raw MDF. But that’s not within reach of a startup.
And the difference in price is soul crushing. When it’s even available here, you pay $40-60 a 4x8 sheet. From China, it’s; $6.00 a sheet (plus about $15 for shipping).