You might notice a new link that says Don’t Click Here. That’s me just being silly and using some psychology to actually get you to click. Clever, right? Anyway.
I’ve been really trying to own everything when it comes to my content. This is how it used to be, before Twitter, before Meta. We had blogs. We had this brand new, very cool photos sharing site called Flickr, and the two worked together quite nicely. Then we had message boards and podcasts and all was really ok in the technology world. And it was fun.
Like I said, trying to own everything. Which is really cool for me because I get full control over my words and photos when I post them
. It sucks for me because I don’t have an algorithm trying to force my content on unsuspecting users, or users that aren’t interested.
Introducing the
! It’s nothing that is that new. It has been gaining in traction since Elon ruined bought Twitter. I’m a Mastodon user myself, and I think it’s great. There is no algorithm, so you have to have people and hashtags to follow. Once you do, no ads, no weird content, and tons of control over your own stuff.
And the biggest part of my relaunching of
was to make sure it is federated. And it is! You can follow me on the blog at @[email protected]. Sure, it looks funny, but that’s the way the users names look. You get used to it pretty quickly.
I’m very excited to keep going with this and see just how far it goes.