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[galadhir]

I have just joined Bluesky, but it does seem to be very worthy and very focused on the big issues of real life, so I don't know how long I'll last over there.

I'm doing it again already, spreading myself too thin. That's it now. No other sites of social media allowed. I already know I can't keep up with one, let alone two. (Or three, in fact, since my non-writing real life friends and activities are all on Facebook.)

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[julesjones]

I spend most of my time on Mastodon, although I keep thinking I need to post more on Dreamwidth. I have mostly abandoned BlueSky, a combination of the algorithm and the age verification which I refuse to do. I suspect that I don't see a lot of the stuff I would like to see, and other people don't see me. I look at it a couple of times a week to see what my friends there are up to, but I'm mostly not bothering to post.

I did use Fedica to cross-post and it was useful for composing a thread before posting, but I still have to manually edit separate threads for Bluesky and Mastodon if I want to use Mastodon's longer post lengths. Might still cross-post some of the fountain pen wittering, but possibly just to point at a DreamWidth edition of long Mastodon threads.

The terribly serious stuff has started to permeate Mastodon because of [waves arms around] everything, but it's still very possible to filter stuff out and in to minimise stuff, and people seem more inclined to use content warnings.

[galadhir]

I did spent a happy time on Mastodon while I was permaculturing my garden :) I joined Sunbeam.city, which is the best place to find anarchists who know how to brew fertilizer tea. But then I moved on from gardening, because I only have a three to five year attention span, and didn't really fit there any more.

I keep hoping I'll find that one platform I can stand to build a community and a readership for my books, but I just don't think I'm wired up that way, and it always falls off. It's like masking, I can't pretend to be an author all the time, when most of the time I'm just me. (If that makes any sense?) Most of the time I just don't have anything useful, relevant or witty to say about anything. I just want to be able to talk about my fanfic and belly dancing and stuff and not to have to incessantly talk about books or politics.

[pattrose]

Is Bluesky like twitter?

[galadhir]

It's a lot like Twitter, but it seems to be even harder to have a conversation on there because you can't reblog an entry with a comment.

[pattrose]

I would be lost. LOL

[galadhir]

An old friend who I haven't had any contact with for years is on there, so I'm trying it mainly for her. Otherwise I really wouldn't bother.

[kazzy_cee]

Too much social media just sucks away so much time. I barely manage with Lj/DW and Facebook...

[galadhir]

You're so right. I'm supposed to be using social media to promote my books, and every so often I do try, but I know that I hate being advertised to, and I'd rather be writing instead, so I stop.