Using The Socials

I’ve been pretty quiet on social media recently, with the demise/descent into Fascism of Twitter/X meaning I’ve quit the place where I used to post the occasional bit of nonsense.

The trouble is I haven’t really found a natural home for my different interests:

• I follow a lot of tech accounts on Mastodon
• I follow those sports people and news sources who’ve migrated off X onto BlueSky
• I now ignore everyone who’s left behind on X

My last usage of X was to keep up with the Halesowen Town social feeds, but with a bit of effort I’ve set up a scraper that mirrors their posts onto both Mastodon and BlueSky

I’ve not been on Facebook for many years, but did briefly go back to Instagram for a while. However their recent anti-DEI/LGBT+ pronouncements means I’m not really happy sharing photos there any more ☹️

It’s really hard keeping up with all this crap from the big tech companies 🤬

Going forward

Just writing the above down has made it a bit clearer what I’m going to do:

• Any tech only posts will go onto my Mastodon account
• Any non-tech posts will also go onto my BlueSky account
• Not 100% sure how to share any photos, but probably will put them on both Mastodon and BlueSky - and considering posting videos to YouTube and/or TikTok

No idea if this will stick, but seems like a good plan for right now in March 2025