I was late to social media - I liked blogging, liked not knowing who was reading this stuff, unless they commented or made contact in other ways.  Eventually I gave in and joined Facebook and later Twitter.  Yesterday I was one of the millions joining Bluesky.

I have mostly enjoyed, and still enjoy, social media, but over time parts of it have changed dramatically and often not for the better.

I remain on the platform formerly known as Twitter, at least for now, since there are many good people and fun accounts still be found there.  But for how much longer if rumours about sales and control and other unpleasant changes prove to be true?  I ponder the tension between the truth that you can't change something from outside of it, and the truth that participation can become collusion.  Tricky.

And of course now there are so many other platforms that there just is not the time or space to be there.  My decision to join BlueSky (as myself and as my cats) with the same 'handles' as  on the other place seems to echo that of millions of others - so much so that some glitches have arisen in the new place.

For now, what's enjoyable is that the connections I/we have are few, and trusted, and it it take seconds to scroll through the posts.

Scarily, it's now nineteen years since I began blogging, and this once busy French provider is now a lot quieter than it used to be.  I get a lot, and I mean a lot, of BOT messages, whch I systematically delete, but otherwise the sky here is actually pretty nice too!