Social engagement

After Twitter got destroyed by Elon the Terrible, I basically did without any social media for a while. I still had a Facebook account, but that service and its overlords are problematic (to say the least) as well and I never hang out there anymore. I tried a few of the new Twitter competitors as they came around—Hive, Post, one other one I've already forgotten the name of—but they all lacked functionality or otherwise rubbed me the wrong way somehow. I never tried Mastadon or Threads; the former seemed way too complicated and the latter is, like Facebook, a Zuckerberg joint, and I'm not a fan. Then Spoutible came along, and I liked that one. I was hopeful (still am, to a lesser degree) that it would be the platform to rise to the top of the heap and become the "new Twitter," for lack of a better term. But it's BlueSky that seems to have won that war, that's the one that now has the userbase needed for such a thing to succeed and, for me, to be interesting.

So I'm on BlueSky now. Still on Spoutible, too—I prefer that service as an entity, with its BotSentinel integration and its general Bouzyness, but it just doesn't have the reach BlueSky has now with its much greater numbers. Spoutible also doesn't have the sort of integrations useful for sites like this, whereas BlueSky does. Hence the new feedbox at right (if you're reading this on a phone screen, it won't be there unless you turn it on its side to landscape style) and the share buttons, which now have share-to-BlueSky as well as Facebook (because for some damn reason Facebook is still how tons of people use the Internet in toto) options and no more Twitter options. Because screw that guy and his now-shitty rebranded platform.

Anyway, at some point I'll get back into the habit of "skeets" and "spouts" of things that aren't meaty enough for a post here.