I’ve noticed that I haven’t actually learned much while on Bluesky. I’ve been entertained, annoyed, and flummoxed, but I’m otherwise not gaining much from it so far. Maybe that’s what Bluesky is for?
@jack Do you feel differently about other platforms? Are there any where you feel you learn more than others?
@ChrisJWilson Mastodon feels a bit more nerdy, so I'm more likely to pick up interesting things there. What I really want is Old Twitter. Back when I felt like I was in a room with all the smartest people instead of now where it feels like being in a room full of the biggest smart-asses :).
@ChrisJWilson @jack My platform of choice for discovery and learning has been around for a bit, it's the internet. 😉
But, really, the internet. While I REALLY appreciate the recent emphasis on ActivityPub and the Fediverse, it's the larger patchwork ecosystem of the internet. One site I often forget about and haven't used much is MetaFilter which I intend to add to the mix. Wikipedia is probably my most used site. I've never really used Reddit until recently. Had an account there for 6 years but just lurked a bit. Lately I've been enjoying a couple of tech specific subreddits and actually contributing more.
It might seem silly or obvious, but having an evolving, dynamic starting point, ye old browser starting page has proved helpful for me. My Safari start page where a new tab displays bookmarks graphically. That combined with RSS. So, rather than looking for the one true social media, I'm using 2-3 apps as a dynamic guide of an evolving diversity of sources. Then another couple of apps to collect, write and post.
@Denny True! I could probably get by with only my RSS reader. It's just that many people I want to read have abandoned blogging for social media. I don't like following social accounts using RSS so I'm stuck with my (highly-curated) follow lists for now.
@Denny "My platform of choice for discovery and learning has been around for a bit, it's the internet." Me too. In the early 1990s Compuserve tried to pretend the Web didn't exist and that there was only Compuserve forums. But it was the only commercial Internet provider where I lived, so we had no choice. Ever since, I've looked at 'platforms' through that lens. It's all just corners of the Internet pretending to be the only game in town.