Somehow, after a long social media hiatus mostly spent on Reddit, I found myself back on Mastodon (a Twitter replacement for me) and Lemmy (maybe a Reddit replacement one day). And, probably as a content consumer rather than an active poster, on BlueSky (a newish Twitter alternative). And for a few days, I’ve been using Pixelfed (a photo sharing service I’ll be using instead of imgur).

Bluesky is literally (not figuratively) the only social network my wife has ever shown any interest in, and only because of the rapid rise in popularity throwing mentions of it into multiple TV news broadcasts and news aggregators. There’s no way she’ll sign up, but anyway…

I’m currently ‘bridging’ the gap between Mastodon and Bluesky using the ‘Bridgy Fed’ service https://fed.brid.gy/. The theory is that posts I make on either network, and some of the interactions prompted by them, can be viewed on both networks and…

It’s just magic isn’t it. It’s probably how the web should be working by default at this point nearly 28 years after I first got online.