Some days I'm glad my instance of #GNUsocial doesn't support #ActivityPub and isolates me from the idiocy on Mastodon of which I already get plenty from #Birdsite.
In a synchronicity moment with a longterm friend, I logged onto #birdsite for the first time in months. Four tweets about shrinking distance, bridging the gap between private thought and public consciousness. The irony is that I know only my longterm friend will read them, when I want at least 1% of my followers to read them, and I could have just DM'd her. I wish she'd give me a mailing address so I could favour her with slow-cooked correspondence in colourful ink.
If the local police force wasn't following me on #birdsite I'd have RT'd this: "You can choose to wake up and feel grateful that you’re alive, or you can choose to wake up and feel disappointed that you didn’t die while you were sleeping...I usually try to go back to sleep and give death another shot."
Most people are not obsessed with #Twitter (and we don't all use the #Birdsite nickname). If you watch some tags for the types of content you're looking for, chances are you'll find more of it, though maybe less than you see on Twitter. Smaller network, fewer people, less content.
So folks, I've finally had to admit to myself that #Quitter.se isn't just "pining for the fiords", it's passed on. It's ceased to be. It is, an ex ... parrot (of the #birdsite). So this is my new #fediverse home. Please re-follow me so I can find and re-follow you too. I love you all (not in a creepy way, in an "all you need is love" kind of way).
With the #deletefacebook / anti-birdsite movement seemingly picking up speed, I have a few questions: * How has it affected your social life? * Did you manage to keep in contact with people far-away that you only spoke to occasionally? * How did your relationship with social media / media as a whole change. * How did your 'free time' change? Were you more productive or did you procrastinate elsewhere?
If you're replying, please say how long you've been without #Facebook / #Birdsite :)
Ok. That's a first. My blogpost on how to switch from #Birdsite to #Mastodon has been translated to Japanese but slightly changed to explain how to transition from #Twitter to #Pleroma.