Bluesky is imploding right now. It’s a lot quicker than I expected, but it is. I posted there, rarely. But not enough to care, so I feel nothing about it. Frankly, social media collapse is boring and exhausting at this point. The CEO reveals their technocratic fascistic tendencies, people get tired about it, some leave, most stay but aren’t happy about it. Rinse and repeat until the place is more or less dead. I say “more or less” because people are still on Twitter, which is kind of wild. The only thing that makes Bluesky’s implosion interesting is that it’s a woman this time, which will probably be a wake-up call for some people. Also, she’s having a Lowtax-level crashout, and if that word doesn’t mean anything to you, congratulations! You’re either good at touching grass or don’t have your driver’s license yet. And the only thing that’s *different* about Bluesky’s implosion is that people don’t seem to know where to “go next.” That’s what I’ve been thinking about and why I’m writing this. Because I don’t think there’s anywhere to go anymore y’all. Not in the grander, “public square of the internet” sense. That’s not really news to me and it’s something I’ve assumed will become the case for a while now. In a way we’re returning to the internet when it was the wild west. You either just don’t post online, or post in a niche space. Or I guess keep going in the terrible spaces, but I don’t recommend that personally. Even off of Bluesky, I’ll still be in my small communities. My [forum](https://discourse.auldnoir.org/) is lovely, I can be with my close friends on Discord[^1]. I have a [newsletter](https://buttondown.com/taniynquest) for the 10 people that care to read my writing. I popped back onto [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/blog/mintmentha) to look at pretty pictures again. And I’m trying out [Mellivora](https://akkoma.mellivora.social/mint) for a more Cohost-like experience but run by people who will know what to do about racist users, lol. Each of these places receives a different facet of me. I don’t think all of me should ever be in one single place online, which was always kind of the case before the internet became three websites passing their “““content””” back and forth. I wasn’t talking about my Redwall OC on the starmen.net forums, you know? I think hoping for a single timeline where you could just exist online was always going to be a recipe for disappointment, when it comes down to it. If I could, I probably *would* take the “just go touch grass” option. But I can’t do that, sorry! I need this rectangle, all my friends are on it! Ever since I logged into a GameFAQs forum to talk about the first E3 trailer for [[My Favorite Games - Part 1#The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker|The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker]], the internet has been as much a part of my real life as “real life.” I’ve made life-long friends on it, started my career because of it, flourished creatively because of it, and experienced moments that I’ll never forget because of it. No singular website can ever take that happiness away from me, and I hope you don’t let yours get taken away either. [^1]: until that implodes, but it’s easier to migrate a small group so it’s kind of a moot point [^2] [^2]: a silly lil note: i usually use stock images for these sorts of posts, and i love the one i picked because it has clubhouse on it. *clubhouse*? who the fuck remembers clubhouse? LOL