I figured after Cohost went down I'd just use my Bluesky a little more going forward, but I didn't last long and got rid of it after a few days of extended use. The vibes are rancid, tbh. I can feel the toxicity seeping through every irony-poisoned post that crossed my timeline. So many references to "main characters" from the site's history that I didn't want to learn about. Dunk-posting left and right. I was not amused or enthused and I could tell the path that I'd be heading down if I stuck around so I dropped it early and saved myself the trouble. The site's mechanics don't really mesh well with me either. So many baffling decisions in the way Bluesky works. Why are blocks public? What constitutes a "rude" post for it to get suppressed by the timeline? Just a lot of silly things that added so much friction to my actual usage of the site. Bluesky feels like it's created a culture that's made for people that *love* to post. That makes sense, given that it was Twitter power-users that started using it first. But I can't trust a place like that to not irritate me in the long-run. Which sucks! That was the last public-facing place I was considering using online. There is, in my opinion, no truly good place to post in public anymore.[^1] I wonder if it's going to be like this forever. I liked having a place I can just throw thoughts out and have people choose to engage with or not. But I don't like the idea of Bluesky being the biggest public place to post[^2] in that way. It's not a big deal of course, I lived without posting before and can do so again. But it's still a bit of a bummer. [^1]: Don't say Mastodon [^2]: Say that five times fast lol