Notices by Sian (funktious@mastodon.scot)

On the whisky trail

#islay #scotland

I have been to the seaside...

... and to a bluebell wood...

#bloomscrolling

@Marie_Ranquet @miblo @me It's really interesting, and I'm looking forward to someone writing a social history of all this! I've been online since the late 90s, but I was a teen then, and a shy, nervous one at that so I was very much a lurker and still tend to be. As social media grew I grew more confident posting, but I still tend to hold back more than I post. And a lot of my friends from twitter were from the same generation as me.

@gvenema @me exactly this - people would say ‘it’s so quiet here' and they’d only be following 20 people. It took work to build what I have now but I’m glad I did. I do miss the people who didn’t stay though. I’m still angry at Musk for fracturing our communities like this.

@ravenbait @patrickhadfield @me it sounds like the passivity of Twitter just moved there - my last couple of years on Twitter I got so little engagement, even from people I knew IRL, that it was refreshing to come here and actually get replies and likes from friendly strangers! It feels like a proper community is slowly growing here and I love that.

@ravenbait @patrickhadfield @me good to know - this is the impression I got of it and I chose not to go there so as not to split my attention and focus on one place (I don’t need this for work, it’s purely social for me!) Just sounds like lots of people fighting to get clout and clicks and attention.

@patrickhadfield @me I think a lot of people really loved the lively feed, the 'main character' of the day, the dunking, the news cycle comedy and I get that - I remember some really fun days when major political stuff happened (D Cameron and the pig for example…)

But I’m also happy to get away from that, tbh, it was exhausting yet oddly passive and bad for the blood pressure. Now I have book reccs and beautiful landscape photos and just daily life from across the world. Better for me mentally.

@me Yeah, lots of the people I knew from Twitter who joined Mastodon fell away from it quickly, saying they just didn't 'get it'. I think they're now all on BlueSky. I blame the latter years of Twitter where everyone just passively absorbed everything.

It took me a while to find my feet here but I did it by actively boosting, liking and replying to posts, finding and following hashtags, then people. And now I have a really nice feed and lots of interesting people and photos and conversations!