mcwetboy | Bluesky, Patreon and Other Platforms: An Update (Reply)

I’m now on Bluesky, about which I am so far cautiously optimistic: for better or worse, it seems to have recreated a lot of the Twitter vibe, but with less of the Twitter horror. Said vibe is looser and freer than Mastodon’s (which to be sure I’m still posting to), again for better or worse. It’s an oversimplification and subjective as hell, but as I posted at one point, near as I can figure, Bluesky is for people who miss Twitter and Mastodon is for people who don’t.

I’m hardly ever on Twitter any more and I certainly don’t post. I could shut down my accounts at some point, I suppose. I’m no longer mirroring these posts on Tumblr either; I am, however, still mirroring them on Dreamwidth.

After musing about it for more than eight years, my Patreon finally went live last week. The goal is to move The Map Room, the map blog I started back in 2003 (!), to a reader-supported model so I can turn off the ads (which, honestly, have gotten to be a bit much) but still pay the bills. (My Ko-fi page also works for monthly as well as one-off contributions.)

Mirrored from Jonathan Crowe.