Back in 2010 when I signed up for Twitter, it seemed great. I could follow many people in the games industry (as well as people working in movies, art, comics etc in a variety of roles) and it seemed like a haven of sharing news and ideas, I reached out and had convos with many people who helped me in some way or another. 5 years later and social networking seems to have devolved into echo chambers of disgust, griping about big problems without actually proposing *doing* anything about them, and/or a platform for crowd-bullying or shaming people. Additionally it's quite a time-eater, but you have to go through the chaff to get the wheat so time-limiting programs like LeechBlock don't do a lot to help.

So to adjust to a post-twitter personal climate, what are good/great mailing lists or feeds to sign up to for gamedev and creative industries stuff? What about tech?

These kind of subjects:

Movies - making, reviews, cinematography etc

Gamedev - c, c++, c#, tools like Unity/Unreal, Graphics (realtime and offline)

Art/sketches - I know DeviantArt and ArtStation, anymore?

Thanks in advance

I still like twitter for all of this stuff. It's generally a hub for further reading when you see something interesting.

If your feed looks like what you're describing it's probably worth overhauling who you follow. I don't see any of that, and I only follow other devs.

Twitter suspended my account due to me not using it.

On a relative note: Why don't folks create a web site to keep their 'fans' updated on what they are doing ? Twitter seems like it's a very cluttered promotion platform.

Please don't tell me it's too hard to code PHP web pages.

Twitter suspended my account due to me not using it.

On a relative note: Why don't folks create a web site to keep their 'fans' updated on what they are doing ? Twitter seems like it's a very cluttered promotion platform.

Please don't tell me it's too hard to code PHP web pages.

Well the thing about putting up your own web site is finding ways to actually have people go there. And even if you can get fans or potential customers to visit your site, they may do it once and then never recheck. You'd need a huge amount of work to make something people constantly look at.

And the thing about twitter is that there are millions of people already there, already reading, looking for something interesting.