What is going to be your big stretch this week? What are you going to do beyond your comfort zone? Try something new? Eat a new food? Write a bit? Write a lot? Travel?

The week I signed up for BlueSky phone app. I’ve been on Threads for a while now. But because I didn’t have an invite to BlueSky, I hadn’t sign up for it. There were a bunch of news reports about people signing up for BlueSky, I was like what? You don’t need an invite? So I’m signed up now.

My initial reaction is like it was the early days of Threads. People congratulating themselves for leaving Twitter. Which is great. I fully support people leaving any social media platform that makes them feel uncomfortable. But after that was there enough activity to make it interesting?

BlueSky has starter packs that allow you to follow a whole pile of people at a time. That is a great time saver. I’m not sure I remember everyone’s social media handle.

What am I doing differently? I’m following more art and writing accounts. While I do have strong feelings about politics, Social media isn’t the greatest at communicating those beliefs. You could spend a lifetime battling people who don’t believe in the same things, but would you change anyone’s mind? Probably not!

Hopefully, BlueSky keeps it’s positive spin. I know it doesn’t have an algorithm, so maybe the outrage postings will not be as important. I know that shit posters are already showing up. (Shit posters are reply guys who latch onto a popular post and talk shit about the OP/their opinions/etc.)

Have a great day!