Like many, I joined Twitter several years ago. Though I seldom posted, I found it a great way to keep up with what was going on in my local community, as 90% of the accounts I first followed were from my ate or were community related in some way. Over time it developed into my preferred method of obtaining local and national news and keeping up with my favorite sports teams. Sure I see the occasional far-fetched political rant, but I have been around long enough to see through the BS and generally keep my feed clear of the wackos. I should add that I use Hootsuite for my Twitter client which seems to help keeping my feed clean.

Now suddenly Twitter gets purchased by a mostly clueless billionaire and many are bailing for other platforms. Mastodon seems to be a common landing spot. I have not yet joined Mastodon but from what I have read it is very much a Twitter clone without the huge conglomerate / clueless billionaire behind it. I will give it time to grow and develop before I consider joining.

I have recently joined micro.blog and find the ability to post in either short form or long form to be to my liking. This is more for my benefit than anything else, I have no grandiose expectations that anyone actually cares what I have to say. It’s more like my private journal that I choose to post publicly.

I said all that to say this: yes I am trying and enjoying micro.blog. But I have no plans to bail on Twitter anytime soon as it still serves my needs, mostly better than it did when I first joined.

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