@OrionKidder I hear you. I should probably curate my stream a little better, too. (I posted something about needing to improve my filters, maybe 4–6 weeks ago? And then failed to do so.)

I want to keep up with people like you, and various others here. That's what I log on for: the human connection. I should probably just unfollow some folks who post nothing but politics.

(I'm actually okay with the Skeletor memes. They're not doing me any damage. I occasionally... 1/2

@OrionKidder ...even enjoy them. But I recognize YMMV.)

If you need to take a step back, I will understand. But I'd really like not to lose touch with you. I've enjoyed our interactions, and consider you either a friend or a potential friend, depending on one's definitions. 2/2

@kagan Man, same. We are definitely internet friends.

But here's the thing. I have two different accounts: one on mas.to and one on writing.exchange. The writing exchange account is my oasis of non-terror. It's the firehose feed that I have to curate.

@OrionKidder I tried making lists on Bluesky. I wound up just reading the "Friends" list and not really looking at the others, except when Bsky logs me out for inactivity, and then when I log back in I'm looking at the main feed.

Maybe I should spend a little more time curating things over there... but I'm so comfy over *here*, it feels like wasted effort. Especially on a platform that's already billionaire-captured and enshittifying, and already engaging in egregious censorship.

@kagan IMO don't bother with Bluesky if you don't have to. More mainstream people and sources are on there, and I went there bc some friends when there, but it's *going* to enshittify.

The one thing it has is pre-built feeds. I clicked on the "Linux" feed, and it brings me posts with a handful of key words, but not based on hashtags! So posters didn't *elect* to be part of that list, and sometimes it gets contentious.

What I really want on Masto is to make lists that follow hastags, FFS.