I’m active on Bluesky and it’s helpful for keeping up with things. The main thing I’ve learned about social media is to use it on my terms — I don’t interact with big news accounts or anything like that, it’s critical to avoid both mouthbreathers (which are noticeably less frequent on BS) and Blue No Matter Who centrists. Whether it’s message boards or SM, I’m only looking to find other people who are into my niche interests and are Reasonable Human Beings.sutterfamily wrote: ↑Mon Feb 23, 2026 9:16 am And, you know, I guess I could go to blue sky but I feel that it's less the platform than the medium? Just the absolute worst way to communicate. My oldest came upstairs just before this while I posting about the olympics (she's home sick from school) and asked what I was doing and I told her I was posting on a message board and that it was an archaic way that people used to talk to one another on back when the internet was mostly good and full of promise.
(response I got was pokemon related, haha)
I bailed on Twitter maybe a year or two ago and it felt way overdue then. I do not miss it at all.