Trying to stay atop the bouncing tech bandwagon of Web 2.0 I jumped with both feet into social media (Twitter), leaving behind old, reliable platforms such as Howard Rheingold’s Brainstorms.
Then Twitter turned bad and I left for Mastodon, which was great but persnickety, and honestly it seemed like anyone I really wanted to follow was on Bluesky.
But honestly, Bluesky these days is feeling more and more like a progressive hangover, or the onset of a really bad flu. My feed (yes, I know, follow different people why don’t you) is filled with Yay! Democrats won! And Democrats are terrible…squandering their victory already. Mind you the new Congress isn’t seated until January 3 2027, but my Bluesky feed has pretty well written the whole thing off as a terrible failure.
Maybe I should just log off.
Brian Schrader has a different antidote – read more blogs. He even includes three links with helpful suggestions, although…and maybe it’s just me…but the links direct to raw XML files. Nevertheless I combed through and added quite a few names to NetNewsWire for future reading.
I can’t say I’m completely healed. I still need to find more people-y blogs talking about people-y things and fewer screaming tirades. But I feel like I’m heading in the right direction.
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