I thought I should do a bit of an intro.
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I thought I should do a bit of an intro. I'm fairly new to Mastodon but I'm not a Bsky refugee. I was never on it because it quickly seemed to generate the same annoying dynamics as Twitter, with people doing things for likes.
I'd been off social media for ages until a column by @pluralistic inspired me to check out the fediverse. I really like it so far - it seems pretty chill and doesn't hurt my brain. I'm not a techie but I'm very interested in the politics of tech so appreciate learning more about those issues here.
I haven't posted a lot myself because of having to resize images before uploading, which I can't seem to do easily!
Advice would be helpful. I'm also figuring out the norms for posting.I'm masquerading as a Common Loon for now while I figure out how I want to build a new relationship to social media.
Interested in talking about all things #Birds #Gardening and a bit of #Politics and #HigherEd here and there.
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I thought I should do a bit of an intro. I'm fairly new to Mastodon but I'm not a Bsky refugee. I was never on it because it quickly seemed to generate the same annoying dynamics as Twitter, with people doing things for likes.
I'd been off social media for ages until a column by @pluralistic inspired me to check out the fediverse. I really like it so far - it seems pretty chill and doesn't hurt my brain. I'm not a techie but I'm very interested in the politics of tech so appreciate learning more about those issues here.
I haven't posted a lot myself because of having to resize images before uploading, which I can't seem to do easily!
Advice would be helpful. I'm also figuring out the norms for posting.I'm masquerading as a Common Loon for now while I figure out how I want to build a new relationship to social media.
Interested in talking about all things #Birds #Gardening and a bit of #Politics and #HigherEd here and there.
Welcome!
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