Iāve noticed that I havenāt actually learned much while on Bluesky. Iāve been entertained, annoyed, and flummoxed, but Iām otherwise not gaining much from it so far. Maybe thatās what Bluesky is for? jack.micro.blog
@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 Iām 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, itās the internet. š
But, really, the internet. While I REALLY appreciate the recent emphasis on ActivityPub and the Fediverse, itās the larger patchwork ecosystem of the internet. One site I often forget about and havenāt used much is MetaFilter which I intend to add to the mix. Wikipedia is probably my most used site. Iāve never really used Reddit until recently. Had an account there for 6 years but just lurked a bit. Lately Iāve 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, Iām 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. Itās just that many people I want to read have abandoned blogging for social media. I donāt like following social accounts using RSS so Iām stuck with my (highly-curated) follow lists for now.
@Denny āMy platform of choice for discovery and learning has been around for a bit, itās the internet.ā Me too. In the early 1990s Compuserve tried to pretend the Web didnāt 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, Iāve looked at āplatformsā through that lens. Itās all just corners of the Internet pretending to be the only game in town.