On Whatever I'm talking about the name change of Twitter to X, what it means to me and others, and why I'm going to be on that site much less from now on.
(Also it means Mastodon will be a beneficiary, as probably a lot of things that would previously had been tweets will now become toots. Although I will have to remember to put a hashtag on the political stuff, I sometimes forget that)
@scalzi
Good piece; looking forward to seeing you post more here. 😎
For myself I've decided not to bother with Bluesky or Threads - I'm done with corporate-owned social media and being at the whim of billionaire man-baby whack-jobs.
After a bit of a settling-in period, Mastodon for me feels a lot like the good bits of the old web, in the days when going online was mostly about finding/connecting with those with similar interests and enthusiasms. Not to shit on things, but to celebrate them.
Scalzi
Ian Malcolm