Edited December 2024 to reflect current reality.
I am, apparently, Twitter user #79,903. That’s almost 16 years on the hell site – out of what is nearing 30 years online – so it is easily the longest internet platform I’ve ever engaged with.
Like practically everyone, I don’t have much faith in what’s to come. I don’t expect it to fall apart overnight, but like most of the internet, nothing good can stay good forever. (And really, Twitter has been bad long before recent events. But it’s also had critical mass in a way few sites have.)
I don’t know quite what the future holds for Twitter. I will undoubtedly keep passively reading it and engaging when necessary. But my energy has already been going elsewhere for a while.
I’ll spare you a treatise examining years of my mixed feeling about social media and leave it at this:
A. The majority of my social energy these days in on Discord. I’m remyvja, although my privacy settings are such you’ll probably need to have a mutual server with me first.
B. I have a small, private Discord community of my own. I have no desire to cannibalize the other small communities I’m in. But if you want to join a small circle of folks that I’d vouch for, drop me a note wherever you normally contact me.
C. I’m on Bluesky at (surprise) @vjarmy.com. After some fits and starts this has effectively replaced Twitter for me, which is to say most of my short form daily nonsense is there. It’s also not lost on me this is perhaps the first social network I haven’t gone by some form of “Remy” on.
D. I’m still on a bunch of other places. The ones I’m most active on: Instagram, Steam, Foursquare/Swarm, Letterboxd.
E. Acknowledging I am not at all at the right age bracket, I’m on TikTok, and it’s mostly where my wrestling clips have been going.
F. I’m also on Cohost. It’s got a very non-serious vibe that I’ve missed. The longer, navel-gazing stuff will probably still end up here. RIP Cohost.
G. I’m also, as of March 2023, on Mastodon. I’m as surprised as you probably are. Mastodon never truly clicked for me and I’ve let the paid account I generated though Medium lapse.
That’s all for now. Good luck and do your best.
