Social Media

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    Overcoming the Compulsion to Share

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    โ€œIf Iโ€™m not sharing it, if people arenโ€™t seeing it, then it feels like thereโ€™s no point doing it.โ€ I said this to my wife recently โ€” and the moment I heard myself, I realised how deeply social media had rewired my motivation to create. I tried to remember a time when this wasnโ€™t the…

  • Returning to Mastodon

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    As part of my diversifying of apps and services, I rejoined Mastodon a few days ago with a new account. Itโ€™s early days but my experience lands halfway between Bluesky and Threads. Threads has a lot of angry tech people on there who love telling you their unwanted opinions. Bluesky is a lot nicer, but it is…