Right. LJ remembers who I am, but refuses to post a note of gratitude for 's eclipse photos. It must be time to post something to my own blog to prove that I'm alive.
Yeah, Twitter was a case where a platform died of enshittification, but there was no similar alternative for people to use, and it has caused a lot of problems. Things like this are why leaving the internet entirely to businesses is bad for society. You're always building castles on sand - any of it can disappear any time for any reason or no reason.
Well...Dorsey created Bluesky. It's open to the public now; Scalzi didn't invite me personally, he just notified readers that we could follow his tweets there. So I joined Bluesky right away. It's still much smaller, though, and I've not been able to open it for several weeks (confirming that I can open it now is not yet a high priority). I don't know that I've earned the right to invite people but I'd be delighted to find you there, ysabetwordsmith, and think Scalzi would too. How long it will last, whether it can survive as a replacement for Real Twitter, who knows.
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Yeah, Twitter was a case where a platform died of enshittification, but there was no similar alternative for people to use, and it has caused a lot of problems. Things like this are why leaving the internet entirely to businesses is bad for society. You're always building castles on sand - any of it can disappear any time for any reason or no reason.
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Well...Dorsey created Bluesky. It's open to the public now; Scalzi didn't invite me personally, he just notified readers that we could follow his tweets there. So I joined Bluesky right away. It's still much smaller, though, and I've not been able to open it for several weeks (confirming that I can open it now is not yet a high priority). I don't know that I've earned the right to invite people but I'd be delighted to find you there, ysabetwordsmith, and think Scalzi would too. How long it will last, whether it can survive as a replacement for Real Twitter, who knows.
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