Is this thing on?

[cos]

Time to take another stab at seeing if some people will read and comment somewhere other than Facebook!

Almost a full year since the last time I posted here, but the harmfulness of Facebook's influence has been much more in the news in that year, and people are talking about it more, so maybe people are more ready to broaden their post&comment flavored social media now?

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[elusiveat]

I am here. I am also not on Facebook anymore. I still have a Facebook account, but basically never log on except when someone private messages me and I don't have their email address, so that I can write back and ask them to please use email instead.

On the other hand, I've started to be lightly active on Twitter, instigated by the fact that it's basically the only way to keep up with public thinkers who no longer keep blogs.

I use Mastodon, and am looking into getting a Matrix server set up.

I do not miss Facebook, although I do feel a bit out of the loop sometimes, especially in the nagging worry (especially with the pandemic going on) that I might not have a way to know if people in my extended circles died.