Public tweets are not public, haha!
In which I decide to leave social media and use this blog instead
- Posting: You can tweet, but the public can’t read it1.
- Reading: Most of my timeline is garbage.
Mastodon
- Posting: Everything is quasi-public, and instance operators are all-knowing gods2.
- 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.
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