Today, I was able to try out Bluesky, the Twitter ripoff. It’s very faithful if you’re used to Twitter.

I’ve been using Mastodon, lightly, for most of the year. It’s where the most relevant chatter was since Twitter’s fracture.

By a miracle, and help from OldTweetdeck, I’m still running the previous version of Tweetdeck for now. It’s on life-support and could die at any time.

Besides the light use of Facebook and Instagram, and having signed up for Pixelfed but not really using it, it’s a weird time for social media in 2023.

To recap:

  • Twitter is dying. Its owners want it to be called ? but nah, not gonna do that
    • Tweetdeck still serves its purpose for me, a general idea of what Twitter people are saying, but it’s far more conservative hyperbole now. However, still my social attention spend
  • Facebook serves people older than 30 crowd just fine, I guess, but I am allergic to its slurping up of all data to do who knows what. No thanks
  • Instagram is barely useful, mostly for the Stories feature, but just not much to enjoy beyond that
  • I wanted Pixelfed to replace Instagram, giving me control back, but I just haven’t committed
  • Mastodon is the 2nd primary attention and most of my posts, which still isn’t a lot
  • Nostr, well, is really so niche right now, you probably haven’t heard of it. But, for the few notable people I see there, and can’t really see elsewhere, it’s slightly interesting
  • Bluesky is not really gonna be much for me until I get a Tweetdeck like instant feed refresh tool. I don’t like manually refreshing Bluesky to see new posts, never did about Twitter, eithe

I won’t bother with any other social networks. It’s already too much for me.

Ideally, when magical time and effort appear in my life, I’ll set this site up to just blast out to half the list up there, Indieweb style, and start writing here on this site. Or not. It’s a lot of work, and the UI for WordPress and Gutenberg is not ideal, whether with Classic Editor or Gutenberg.

Also, I still have trust issues with the web in general. OpenAI, ChatGPT, all these new 2023 AI services, this site and my content on all the sites above and more have fed into their dataset. It’s annoying.

How do I find a balance here?