Now that I'm back home and having a little time to think.. something has sunk in about the change in online community over the last few years, and it's not ideal.

Last time I went to Trans Pride in Scotland (in 2022, I missed last years), I was able to find other people's photos quite quickly afterwards.
Where? Twitter, of course!
A little search in the hashtag #transpridescotland and there were most of the images people had taken! I was able to find other people I had met at the march and interact again!

That's.. just not happening, this time around. Twitter - sorry, 'X' - has completely screwed up its search system.. not to mention that many of its userbase has left. I certainly have.

After the March today, there was a little 'market' with some stalls - local LGBTQ+ groups and the like. I got told a couple of times today "Oh, that resource is on Twitter - oh you don't have Twitter? Understandable, but we don't have an alternative.."

The fragmentation, which was inevitable after Musk's fuckery, is having an effect on access. I wonder how things will play out from here? Will most come together on a new platform? We've got the generational/age gap to bear in mind here as well - the organisers have a Facebook, and Instagram, a Twitter, and a Tiktok account, rather than having one single Social Media to make announcements from. Are those all finding different audiences?

I'm glad that we were all able to come together today, IRL. I just wonder how organising will work in the future - and if groups will change their resource allocation away from X.