One of the reasons I haven't blogged for a while, is that I had increased the amount of time and effort I put into twitter. I've found from experience that the worth of twitter is all about who you follow. I haven't ever automatically followed everyone who was following me - that is to let go of the control over what appears in your feed.
To be honest, I've always preferred the short-lived subjot to twitter, simply because it allowed one to follow only those subjects in which you were interested. The problem with twitter has always been that you follow someone and then get all their tweets without being able to distinguish between their political tweets which may be interesting to you, and their tweets about their new boots, their food or their tedious train journeys.
I've now joined Mastodon online, although I have only the automated followers there, and have only a handful of people and bots I am following. I've also hedged my bets and joined tribel. I've signed up for BlueSky in case that turns out to the the heir apparent. But while I wait for the successor to twitter to be crowned, I'm possibly reverting to blogging for a bit.
