Settling into social media

I’m usually as early an adopter as I can be with the various tools and apps that come online in the world of social media and social networking. For instance, I was one of the very early users of Plurk and subsequently twttr, although I think when I signed up in June 2007 it had already become twitter.
Anyway, there’s lots of activity at the moment with people shuffling allegiances. As you’d expect, I’m on Threads, BlueSky, Mastodon, even Spoutible. If you want to find me on your favourite site, and I will almost certainly be there, just use a URL like this:
https://sciencebase.com/social
Swap the word social for your chosen site: pixelfed, Instagram, mastodon, the aforementioned spoutible etc. The link above will open my page with active links to all my social media outlets.
Anyway, the main point of this blog was to discuss whether or not it’s worth homing in on a particular site at the moment. Most of the discussion seems to be around Threads versus BlueSky. Very few people are talking about any of the others, at least it seems that way in my timelines. Personally, I’m seeing some interesting discussions and a little engagement on Bluesky. My recent mineral moon photo did better there in terms of likes and reposts. But, some of the bird photos do much better on my Mastodon page. I’m having more conversations on Threads, but I am not seeing likes or reposts of photos, or indeed, anything that even gets into double figures.
At the ti...

Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 11, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Social Media Source Type: blogs