Socials Socials Everywhere

So I've noticed some status' about BlueSky on other social platforms and how they are usually status' coming from blue checkmarks slamming Threads and Instagram like the platform itself did something bad?

What the hell is Mastodon ?!

Did I miss something?

Why is everyone jumping ship? And are they really or does it just seem like so?

I want to be clear that this has nothing to do with the ownership of the platform as I cannot control who owns what, just how I interact with them. I have seen indie authors delete their profile on certain platforms because of the owner, and have seen those same indie authors suffer in book sales. I have also seen indie authors remove their profiles from certain platforms and be perfectly fine with their book sales.

Everyone is different and two things can be true at once, there are some who will suffer financially from not being on a platform and some who will not. While I myself am not on X (Twitter) as much as I used to be (or on instagram and facebook as much as I would like in search of my urban fantasy tribe) - I'm not here to judge anyone who chooses to be on there if that is where their growth is coming from.

And if this post is dug up years later after I grow popular with my writing (by some random act of algorithm) then hello everyone. How goes it? Were my following predictions correct?

I still like threads, though i see everyone jumping off of it so quickly. To me it's just a better X(Twitter). Not a lot of interaction but good for now. Also I don't want another social media account to manage. I like the ones I have for now, it's the entire reason why I don't have a tiktok - not even going to try to touch the shutdown subject.

Between my website blog (here) Insta, FB, X, Goodreads (FB, X and Goodreads I'm hardly ever on) and Spotify (working on playlists) it already takes a lot of upkeep. I'm barley managing the ones I want to be on... which you can find in my contact page here.

Of course like Vine and MySpace before it (yes I had both, and was pretty good at Vine if I do say so myself (even though I wasn't "viral") I believe that we are over due for a social media platform disappearance.

I predict that X (Twitter) will be the next to go, maybe later this year or 3 or 5 years from now, but I've been around long enough to see writing on the wall.

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