## Twitter

* Posting: You can tweet, but the public can't read it[^1].
* Reading: Most of my timeline is garbage.

## Mastodon

* Posting: Everything is quasi-public, and instance operators are all-knowing gods[^2].
* Reading: *All* of my timeline is garbage.

I'm sad for Mastodon. It would have been an opportunity to reverse
the attention-grabbing engagement-through-outrage mechanisms,
which have already annoyed me on other social media platforms.
Somehow this did not work out.

## The Blogosphere

* Posting: Everything is public, and it does not try to pretend otherwise.
* Reading: Readers control what they are reading through their RSS subscriptions.

And this is the winner.

## Summary

* I'm ditching Twitter.
* I'm not joining Mastodon.
* I keep operating this trusty weblog.

If you don't have one yet, *get yourself an RSS Reader app*,
and *subscribe via RSS*! (see link at the top)

[^1]: Yes! Reading posts requires a Twitter account now!
[^2]: Guarantees are difficult to make in a federated environment.