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And now, as we grow closer to the regime change, more and more people are beginning to obey in advance. Today Meta basically announced that they wanted Facebook to follow the shambling remains of the thing that was once Twitter into irrelevancy. Maybe I’ll start posting more here. I try in fits and spurts to do so regularly. My ADHD tends to make those attempts short lived no matter where I make them. What I need to remember is that a short absence does not mean that I am abandoning something and not to dwell over th missed posts, but to simply restart when I have the spoons once more.

Since the fall of LJ, I have mostly been active on FB. As I began looking for new online communities during the pandemic, I found Twitter and Reddit. These places allowed me to anonymously join trans communities to work out how to go about coming out and transitioning. As those options became more problematic, I tried the new alternatives. I have a Mastodon account, a Discord account, a BlueSky account, because I have a Facebook account I also have Instagram and Threads accounts. Of those, BlueSky is the one where the communities I want to be part of have mostly congregated.

That is not to say it’s perfect, BlueSky has been having its share of issues. But with Facebook announcing its most recent platform updates, I will probably be frequenting it less. Places like Discord might be nice and welcoming, but I haven’t been able to actually get into many of those communities and the few I have tend to move faster than I really follow. I don’t live in social media the way younger folks do, but I exist here more than most people my age.

I am most active on BlueSky, there is a big community there, but I think I will still post here when I have something long to say.

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