TL;DR: You can now follow @funnelfiasco.bsky.social on Bluesky.

This morning, the admins of Hachyderm defederated from Threads. This was a result of recent changes that Threads parent Meta made to moderation policies. It’s now totally cool with Mark Zuckerberg if you say someone’s gender or sexual identity, for example, is a mental illness. The Hachyderm admins rightfully said “fuck that noise” and, since protecting Hachyderm users from this garbage would greatly increase the moderation load, they took the only other option available: defederation.

I understand and support this decision, but it put me in kind of a bind. My social network on Mastodon is way smaller than what it had been on Twitter. This isn’t just ego starvation, but it means that people I enjoyed interacting with are beyond my reach. Some of them started using Threads, but now I’m cut off from them again. Bluesky seems to have really caught on with both my tech- and normal-people circles lately, so I’ve finally gotten around to creating an account there: @funnelfiasco.bsky.social.

I’ve started following some people haphazardly, mostly from people I have seen post elsewhere about being on Bluesky and also the people followed by I’ve started following. So the list is still small, but hopefully I’ll be able to build it up quickly. I don’t know yet how I’ll route my posts to either Mastodon or Bluesky. I’m opposed to the idea of crossposting all the things, so I won’t do that. I’ll probably settle into some kind of pattern eventually. I have time to figure this out.

On a related note, I’m trying to reduce my use of Meta properties in general, although the network effect will probably keep me on Facebook for a long time. But in order to promote the web I want to see, I’m going to try to start writing here more. Wish me luck!