alias_sqbr: And yet all I can think is this will make for a great dreamwidth entry. (dreamwidth)
I never clicked with twitter, so I was pretty quick to jump ship after Elon took over and try out some alternatives, namely bluesky and mastodon. I liked them both more in some ways, but my timelines were achingly quiet which made the experience pretty dull.

But then I got frustrated at having like ONE follower at each of my game dev accounts and looked around for ways to meet at least enough people to feel like I wasn't posting into the void, and that quickly gained me enough mutuals and fun people to follow that I now genuinely enjoy checking my timelines, especially on bluesky. And then Twitter was banned in Brazil and a whooole lot of Brazilians joined bluesky, which caused the site to strain for a few days but now it's even more vibrant, though obviously some of that is temporary.

I'll put more thoughts under a cut but if you just want to see my accounts here's sqbr at bluesky and sqbr on mastodon.
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alias_sqbr: And yet all I can think is this will make for a great dreamwidth entry. (dreamwidth)
My account is at https://bsky.app/profile/sqbr.bsky.social but you can only see that if you're logged in. I have four invites for the first four people to ask for one.

Bluesky is a twitter clone created by the guy who made twitter, and currently is a lot like early twitter: very quiet, buggy, and uncomfortably ambivalent about nazis. But at least it's not run by Elon Musk.

Since I dislike using twitter-style social media regardless of who's running it I'm just using bluesky to follow former twitter folk who happen to have moved there, and for those purposes it's adequate enough so far.

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