I was curious to see how the ages of my followers varied over various social media. As expected, dreamwidth skews slightly older. But it was also interesting to see how the responses varied in other ways.

Ages:

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There's been a very Strikethrough-esque purging of accounts on tumblr recently. Apple removed the app because there was too much Inappropriate Content so tumblr used a highly unreliable automated process to remove accounts, and enough people have been hit that's there's a general air of "maybe this is going to be it for me and/or the site ( Read more... )

There was some discussion on twitter about how appalling twitter is, and since Mastodon seems to be the most popular alternative I decided to check it out. And then the helper tool led me to an instance that let me be sqbr@im-in.space and I had to join ( Read more... )

Made an ello account but THEY DON'T HAVE TAGS so I can't see me using it much. It has the instant posting style of facebook and twitter if that appeals to you, and I will follow people there if I have to. You have "friends" and "noise" filters (flattering haha) but I don't think you can lock posts. Also you seem to be stuck with a black on white ( Read more... )

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Poll Twits on lj

I looked back over my twitter feed today, apart from the replies to other people's tweets I could be adequately modeled by an AI which spit out an equal mix of geek links, tv comments, and health complaints.

So I decided to get a twitter account. Because I don't have enough to do online :)

I'm sqbr. I don't plan on having anything important there that won't also be here. And as I'm sure you've all already noticed, the scope of my genius is rarely succinct enough to be contained in a mere 140 characters :D