Apologies for the radio silence of late.
Twitter is down once again. But it seems like the communities I'm an active part of are staying put.
There are so many alternatives to join, and none of them seem to have gotten enough of a take-up yet. I hope one wins out. Could it be here?
@Didymus my longest lasting Twitter chat relocated to Discord of all places.
@TheComicHunter Yeah, it's odd how Discord seems to be so popular. Like Reddit, I find it very hard to navigate.
There's huge swathes of good people just sitting out the platform wars and waiting for one to edge out in front.
@Didymus If my friends had not been patient with me, I would never have gotten anywhere on Discord. It's big issue for me is how isolated the chat groups are. Social media is more fun when people can join the conversation.
@TheComicHunter I agree. Being able to engage with new people and potentially make new connections is part of the joy of it.
But I think a lot of people are apprehensive that no one site has edged in front the way Myspace, Facebook and Twitter did.
@TheComicHunter You could be right there. We're a long way from Myspace now, eh?
@Didymus on a related note, have you looked at MySpace lately? Site looks great. I almost set up an account again.
@TheComicHunter I haven't, but I'm sorely tempted now. Go back to the good old days!
@Didymus I remember one of my bands having a page on there, and it was so much fun changing the layout of the page.
@Didymus I'm wondering if the age of the globally used social media site may be over?
I think they would need to drop the programming that channels your posts and make it more organic to really work again.
Right now, too many sites are silos.