Replying to myself to expand, since I can't edit now
I'm actively trying to work myself away from 'short form' content. YT Shorts, TikTok, image memes - that kind of thing.
I don't like how my attention span has wavered over the last decade or so, and I feel a lot of this has to do with it.
HN/Reddit are still here for the time being, as they at least have articles with some depth... and replies are afforded enough characters for actual conversation
Under this light, I'm left feeling that Twitter/Mastodon are just an engagement machine, bare minimum to have something to engage with to move 'currency' around
I want to be better off from my time here, and I don't think I have
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I canned my Twitter account the day I first heard of the pending change in ownership
Not for some grand reason... I just realized I never used it or benefited from it
I won't be moving to mastodon but it's more that I'm tired of the format than anything specific to the platform
Replying to myself to expand, since I can't edit now
I'm actively trying to work myself away from 'short form' content. YT Shorts, TikTok, image memes - that kind of thing.
I don't like how my attention span has wavered over the last decade or so, and I feel a lot of this has to do with it.
HN/Reddit are still here for the time being, as they at least have articles with some depth... and replies are afforded enough characters for actual conversation
Under this light, I'm left feeling that Twitter/Mastodon are just an engagement machine, bare minimum to have something to engage with to move 'currency' around
I want to be better off from my time here, and I don't think I have