Read This Before Using a Tool to Manage your Social Media Channels

So, I recently asked for suggestions on tools to manage Social Media channels. I naively thought it might be a nice efficiency gain to be able to unify my interaction and repost the content across couple of channels (threads, x, and blue sky in this case). I was not looking to spam with multiple posts a day, but even a few week are genuinely distracting so thought it might be nice to get the week's content out of the way, and then just manage the replies and interaction what not as it comes.

One week in, here is the outcome: Theads account permanently disabled, Twitter/X locked out and labelled as spam (thankfully am on premium so was able to unblock), Blue Sky (nothing bad so far...). Now this could all be a coincidence: the accounts are rather new and my social skills are probably quite similar to a bot spamming, but I do find the whole saga a bit weird.

So yeah, in hindsight, I should have thought twice about giving access to one of these tools. Just a word of warning, in case anyone else is thinking, "hey this could be a nice productivity boost!", then end up wasting 2 days to unblock/recover your accounts...

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u/drhindsightdev — 17 hours ago
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Threads Account Disabled for no Reason ??

Trying to do some marketing on Threads. I just posted a friendly indie dev intro post and some replies. Then this happens... At least I got 5 wishlists... But still a bit frustrating. Anyone else experienced this?

u/drhindsightdev — 2 days ago

DIY Capsule Art - How bad is it?

I know the #1 advice on Steam Marketing is to commission a capsule, but as a solo dev I don't really have the budget and thought it's a nice learning lesson to DIY.

No AI, I've built a Unity tool to capture in engine, I pose the assets and some basic filters and font changes in Photoshop.

Brutal feedback: how bad is this?

u/drhindsightdev — 13 days ago