Welp, Twitter is officially Musk’s private playground now.

I stopped using Facebook because I was disgusted with the company and didn’t want to support them with my time or attention anymore. It’s been a lonely decision that made me lose touch with a lot of IRL friends.

In these early days, frankly it feels gross to have my Twitter accounts privately owned by a billionaire troll. I’ve deleted a few of them already (even though I know none of that data is truly gone).

I didn’t delete Facebook entirely. I still have to use my personal login to buy ads on it for work (don’t get me started on how annoyed I am with Meta for not having for business accounts…) and I at least wanted an emergency method to contact long lost friends if I really need to.

I’m not going to delete my main Twitter account either. I’ll likely still use it some for work reasons, but for my personal stuff I want to go somewhere else. Like Zuck, I don’t think Musk deserves to profit off my precious personal time and attention.

I’ve also just been reading a lot lately about social media use and mental health and can confirm I feel more anxious the more I look at Twitter. I currently have a daily one-hour time limit set for Twitter on my phone – this is the only app I need this for – and why yes, I do feel a looming existential dread all of the time these days, why do you ask?

So I’m checking out Mastodon: https://indieweb.social/web/@sfaze

It functions similarly but not quite the same as Twitter, and I’m just starting to learn the ins and outs of a new platform and community. I learned how to navigate Twitch in 2020, but the newbie feeling of wandering around Mastodon has such an early web vibe to it that I haven’t felt in quite some time. We’ll see if that feeling lasts.

I’m a little embarrassed to include this website link in my bio just yet; there is so much more I’ve intended to add to it but haven’t gotten around to yet. Don’t want to delay participating in the #TwitterMigration over there though so I need to just suck it up and try to start devoting more time to it and hope not too many people look at this yet. Perfection is the enemy of the good, right? I have been keeping up my books and beers pages, I just haven’t been so good about posts.

There I was, pouring my energy and attention into a silo instead of doing it here. Breaking that attention grip is easier said than done.