I'm too old to learn new things. There is no room left in my brain for anything else.
For everything that goes in one ear something else runs out the other. I'm liable to learn all about this new fangled notes thing and forget how to get home from work.
Glad to hear you're no more enamored of Dorsey's new thing than I am. I don't know if I'd go so far as to call him a Nazi, but I do score him as tied with Microsoft on the ability to babble incomprehensibly for as long anyone will ask, and that's almost as bad.
Agree also about Mastodon: I am not seeing the point of something that tries to be like Twitter, only much harder to use. I suppose some evangelist could persuade me of the theoretical upsides of the federated approach, but everyone being on a different server strikes me as nothing more than a pain in the ass. I can't like a post by someone who's on another server unless I'm already following them, and starting to following someone on a different server means having to jump through way too many hoops. And don't even get me started about trying to build lists; let's just say that the last two times I made a serious effort, the result was nothing more than a doubling of the feeling that Mastodon is a waste of time.
Over the past 5 years, I've stopped using Facebook, disengaged with Twitter, and gradually lost interest in Instagram, which switched from photo app to dollar store TikTok. I've tried Mastodon, but it never grabbed me (mostly because no one is on there, I guess). The one nice thing about this new Sub-twitter is that it has a bunch of high quality writers and puts them in one spot to Sub-tweet. Sure, Bluesky may have the reporters desperate for attention, the A-list celebrities and people posting nudes, but Substack has people I like, so even without the nudes, I'll give it an honest effort to enjoy. So what I'm asking, Roy, is for you to devote time and energy to one more thing. No rest or relaxation for you, sir.
There's you and Scocca and DeLong, so I guess "cool," but Freddie Deboer? Never got into Twitter so I don't know how to create my own epistemic bubble of only people who aren't wrong about everything.
Social media was a mistake that we will try to make again and again.
Ah, I've been seeing "Notes" from you for the last couple days, but when I clicked on them, they disappeared. This explains things.
Oh, I put my blewski comment in the wrong place. That’s it! I’m outta here!
I'm too old to learn new things. There is no room left in my brain for anything else.
For everything that goes in one ear something else runs out the other. I'm liable to learn all about this new fangled notes thing and forget how to get home from work.
Glad to hear you're no more enamored of Dorsey's new thing than I am. I don't know if I'd go so far as to call him a Nazi, but I do score him as tied with Microsoft on the ability to babble incomprehensibly for as long anyone will ask, and that's almost as bad.
Agree also about Mastodon: I am not seeing the point of something that tries to be like Twitter, only much harder to use. I suppose some evangelist could persuade me of the theoretical upsides of the federated approach, but everyone being on a different server strikes me as nothing more than a pain in the ass. I can't like a post by someone who's on another server unless I'm already following them, and starting to following someone on a different server means having to jump through way too many hoops. And don't even get me started about trying to build lists; let's just say that the last two times I made a serious effort, the result was nothing more than a doubling of the feeling that Mastodon is a waste of time.
Over the past 5 years, I've stopped using Facebook, disengaged with Twitter, and gradually lost interest in Instagram, which switched from photo app to dollar store TikTok. I've tried Mastodon, but it never grabbed me (mostly because no one is on there, I guess). The one nice thing about this new Sub-twitter is that it has a bunch of high quality writers and puts them in one spot to Sub-tweet. Sure, Bluesky may have the reporters desperate for attention, the A-list celebrities and people posting nudes, but Substack has people I like, so even without the nudes, I'll give it an honest effort to enjoy. So what I'm asking, Roy, is for you to devote time and energy to one more thing. No rest or relaxation for you, sir.
There's you and Scocca and DeLong, so I guess "cool," but Freddie Deboer? Never got into Twitter so I don't know how to create my own epistemic bubble of only people who aren't wrong about everything.
"Yr way over our heads." Ed Wood
Wait Elmo out. I’d like to think Twitter will survive his ownership.
Besides, even now, Twitter isn’t all that awful as long as you don’t engage with the crazy people.
(Sorry, not interested in Brewskis or whatever it's called.)