How to Find Your People Online (Without Selling Your Soul or Faking Your Voice)

https://dreamspacestudio.net/how-to-find-your-people-online-without-selling-your-soul-or-faking-your-voice/

Joined Mastodon in '21 and started properly posting in '23 (maybe '22, but I can't remember for sure and I can't be bothered going through all the posts to check). Have had one dubious DM but even that one was fine and didn't get too weird.

Joined Blusky in November this year. Barely a month and I get my first weird DM. Plus the bots. Omg, the bots.

I don't think everything has to be reduced to a better/worse good/bad binary and there are some people I know from the other place who never took up Mastodon, so it's great to be in touch with them again. But let's just say in wanting to make a clone of the other place, Blusky also cloned all the undesirable things as well. It's a shame, but I suspect it's for that very reason that it's proving popular with people.

Of course, everyone's experience will be different and I think that the volume of diverse voices on Blusky is something that goes in its favour. But it's been super interesting to reflect on how I respond emotionally to being on each platform. I definitely feel more at home here.

#Blusky #SocialMedia #FindingYourPeople

Don't you love it when you find a post on Mastodon and absent-mindedly think, ooh, what a cool person, and then read their about post and click on a link or two, and they're sounding more and more interesting by the minute and you go up to click 'follow' and Past You has already been through this very same process and clicked it already?

On the one hand, I could be concerned that I didn't remember following them in the first place, but my brain is a busy place, so I'm just happy that it's consistently enamoured with the right-for-me kind of folks, over and over again.

#FindingYourPeople #gardening #climate #community