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06
December
2024
BlueSky feels like it’s having a moment. I’m on the site using my domain as
my username, @save.vs.totalpartykill.ca. When Google+ was a thing, I
would just link my posts there, and use that space as my comments. That really
bit me in the ass. Anyway, let’s do that again. If you reply to my link
to this post on BlueSky, it should show up as a comment here. Shoutout to
Matt Kane / ascorbic for making this set up easy to do. I’m not sure if
something like BlueSky can capture all the things that made Google+ great.
Being able to actually comment on someones post, and nothing be constrained to
some character limit really encouraged a lot of interesting collaboration. Still,
it feels like there is a lot happening on that space recently.
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29
October
2022
I suspect the death of Twitter is greatly exaggerated. No one pays 44 billion dollars for something only to drive it into the sun, though that’s honestly the best outcome one could hope for when it comes to Twitter. I’ve been on that site since the dawn of time—I’m twitter user 3,321—and I will be a little sad to see it go, but honestly not that sad. It’s been dreadful for many years now.
Just to get a little bit ahead of any exodus, here are a few places you might see me besides this blog:
- Mastadon, which honestly kind of sucks. It’s like the Linux of social media. And I don’t mean that as a compliment. But, at least we can trust it to chug along while not selling your data to advertisers. I’m on tabletop.social, but another popular choice with open registration is dice.camp.
- Cohost.org, which seems promising, but I am unsure how they plan to keep the lights on. It reminds me a bit of G+, in that you can create public (or private!) “pages” for people to follow, and you write posts with comments: no stupid threads.
At the end of the day, the OSR is about blogging, and I’m always up for more of that.
