Back when BlueSky was still invite-only, Major Major was kind enough to offer me one… so I felt it was only polite to set up my own marker (feed?) there. And now that it’s open to all, a whole bunch of you have been kind enough to follow me there. I do appreciate your vote(s) of confidence!
Thing is, though: There’s only so many hours, and I’m not a fast reader. The main reason I held out against forms of social media that were not this blog for so long was the fear that I could either blog here, or post on Twitter / BlueSky / wherever. And I’ve been the Carla Tortelli at this virtual watering hole for too long to break my streak now. Which means I’ve only got the bandwidth, at least while I’m still working on my skill set, to repost & quote-post more dedicated posters’ work on BlueSky (and to kilroy the occasional comment on twitter). Sorry I can’t offer you more, but at least I’m still here, okay?
And if you look at my BlueSky feed, you’ll get an idea of how I’ve been putting posts together all these years. Since I can’t handle a proper ‘My Feed’ setup, I just click on a carefully curated roster of favorite posters, one by one, and collect embed snippets like virtual index cards; some (small) portion of those embeds will end up bricolaged into posts. On BlueSky, that means I’ll dump half a dozen retweets / quote tweets from a particular individual, before moving on to my next victim target. Not ideal for you readers, I guess — but maybe you’ll find some new posters you’ll enjoy following.
So, final question: Should I start putting up links on my BlueSky feed, when I add a post over here? I have no idea if this is even *permitted*, much less how the BlueSky admin protocols would handle it. And while I’d be happy to give y’all a heads-up over there, I absolutely do not want to overload either WordPress, or our own precious sandbox walled garden…