There, I’ve said it. It’s true.<\/p>\n
I hate Facebook<\/a> with the passion of a thousand burning suns. I could go on for hours about all of the bad and the terrible. In fact, I have. It’s pretty easy to get me going, in fact.<\/p>\n I fought joining Twitter<\/a>, until signing up meant that I was more likely to get that job that I was after. Once I did, I was pretty well addicted. I fully embraced it as a microblogging platform, until Gamergate showed how lax they were with enforcing any sort of abuse policy whatsoever. I stayed as long as I could stand it, but eventually a vote was taken, and the citizens of Skippy chose Twexit.<\/p>\n Google Plus<\/a> was just disappointing from beginning to end. Not only did Google\/Alphabet\/whatever decide to get rid of my favorite Google products (I STILL WANT READER BACK! YOU HEAR ME?), not only did it force gender-normative real names upon YouTube comments, not only did it replace Picasaweb (IT WAS FINE YOU JERKS), but it ended up being lackluster and bland.<\/p>\n I tried ello<\/a>. Flash in the pan, and pretentious to boot.<\/p>\n Livejournal<\/a> was my home from 2001, and I slowly migrated away from it, until its new-ish Russian parent company decided that all users were subject to Russian law.<\/p>\n I missed Vine<\/a> entirely. I blinked, and it went away. And, yes, I’m going to point out how similar its life was to the length of its videos.<\/p>\n Snapchat<\/a>? EEeeeeuuuuggghhhh….<\/p>\n Diaspora<\/a>? Now THAT ONE had my attention. I signed up for notifications, and I wanted to host my own pod, and it was awesome and was going to be the best and… I have no idea what happened. I don’t remember ever getting the notification that it was available for use, or I did and never signed up or… ? No idea.<\/p>\n Mastodon<\/a> seems to be a modern Diaspora, and the only problem I’m having so far is figuring out which node I want to be associated with for the life of the platform and\/or until that particular node goes down for good. I’m unsure about how that data can be migrated if that happens, but whatever. I’m going to give it a try.<\/p>\n I’m not looking for a replacement for this blog, or for my vlog, or for my gaming videos. Actually, I take that back, I’d love to find a replacement for YouTube<\/a>. But, I’m not expecting Mastadon to be that. I’m expecting it to be a place to connect with friends and view microblogging content and that sort of thing. On a distributed, open source platform.<\/p>\n If you’re interested, check it out. :) I’ll be posting my contact info there soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There, I’ve said it. It’s true. I hate Facebook with the passion of a thousand burning suns. I could go on for hours about all of the bad and the terrible. In fact, I have. It’s pretty easy to get … Continue reading