Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Bluesky

I've joined the migration! I'm @indotav.bsky.social on that platform, in case anybody is interested. When I do post (and re-post) there, it will mostly be about transportation, urbanism, politics and sports (kinda like here). I'll post links there to articles I've written here as well.

In the month-and-a-half I've been on Bluesky, I've already gained more (actual) followers than I ever accumulated on Twitter (I will never refer to it as "X"). The conversations in the comments are much less noxious (i.e., no "blue check" trolls spewing hate and misinformation), and I've yet to be followed by a single porn bot. It really is a breath of fresh air when compared to Twitter's increasingly-toxic ecosystem, and I'm not enriching Elon fucking Musk every time I use it, either.

I'm not leaving Twitter yet - there are still a lot of people and entities I follow there that have not made the jump to Bluesky yet - but as the platform continues to gain members I'm hoping that in the coming months I can make the switch entirely.

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