Nora, tech aspect on Nostr: I've been told *so many times* that it's unreasonable for me to base decisions about ...
I've been told *so many times* that it's unreasonable for me to base decisions about the tools I use and the digital places I inhabit on ideology.
But that's not what I'm doing, by not joining Bluesky, by not going back to Facebook, by trying to ditch my smartphone. I lived through the collapse of the big XMPP providers; I lived through the Tumblr porn ban; I lived through the enshittification of Windows and the locking down of Mac OS and the subscriptionification of every piece of software out there. We all watched Twitter intentionally turn itself into a cesspit.
I'm making the most practical decisions available to me, by trying to insulate myself, at least a little, from the forces that made those things happen.
But that's not what I'm doing, by not joining Bluesky, by not going back to Facebook, by trying to ditch my smartphone. I lived through the collapse of the big XMPP providers; I lived through the Tumblr porn ban; I lived through the enshittification of Windows and the locking down of Mac OS and the subscriptionification of every piece of software out there. We all watched Twitter intentionally turn itself into a cesspit.
I'm making the most practical decisions available to me, by trying to insulate myself, at least a little, from the forces that made those things happen.