Social media

I used to be on social media but I think I'm done with it. I left Twitter before it turned into a total hell-hole which is X today. I've spent a little while on a Mastodon instance but when that one announced its shutdown I was pretty much done with it. Twitter has racists and other disturbing personalities, Mastodon seems to be a more friendly place on the surface but there's this elitist undertone. But maybe it's just me and I just don't like people.

My Mastodon profile was pretty much technical, no opinions or random thoughts, so not really engaging. But it gathered a few hundred followers over time because the information was useful to them. As long as you're consistent and helpful, people tend to stick around.

Although I have no such plan for this space. It will be about opinions and random thoughts, so in a sense the complete opposite of what I used to do. But I wouldn't care much about the number of followers. Having 0 or 1 follower would already make it worthwhile to write a bit more often and express myself.