I didn’t know until I stumbled upon Tara Calishain’s blog today that this month is “Blaugust,” celebrating blogs. By some serendipitous twist of fate, Tara’s focused on RSS readers, too, so she’s a fellow fighter towards the open exchange of information. Bonus points that she’s from Raleigh. Always love to find another Raleigh blogger!
August 11, 2025
Putting my posting money where my mouth is
I had to leave Twitter when Twitter became X (motto: we put the X in Toxic!). I first hopped over to Mastodon but found it too technically challenging even for me. Then Bluesky opened to public use and I set up an account there, happy that posts weren’t being throttled/algorithmized, etc.
Lately, though, even BlueSky isn’t scratching my itch. I am just done with 300-byte conversations. This world absolutely needs context. It needs depth! You can’t explain anything reliably in 300 characters; you can talk past people but you can’t make a point with any reliability. Trite sound bites are what has gotten us the distracted world we now find ourselves in.
So last week, I posted to BlueSky how I was going to dust off my RSS Feed Reader and start consuming news again without any billionaire nor algorithm telling me what to read.
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