I’ve been more and more and more focused on more fully moving away from social media as a primary source of my media awareness. I’ve been reacquainting myself with RSS and rediscovering blogs and sources of knowledge I’d lost track of in those early days of social media when sharing with your connections meant they’d see it and could interact with it.
I have to keep Meta due to work obligations that have nothing to do with my mostly dormant personal profile there. However, X is gone and my social focus is on (increasingly Mastodon/ActivityPub) and Bluesky (ATProto)… but even then, and especially on Bluesky (though we do have more agency in our experience than the majors) it’s still an outside mediated feed outside of the specific accounts I’ve followed.
I’ve been working through changing that on both Mastodon and Bluesky, but hadn’t given thought to “newsletter” type content from Substack, Ghost, etc. Today I focused some energy on making sure newsletters I want to read, both paid and not, are in my RSS reader and not also hammering my email inbox.
Anyway, that was the nerdy part of a holiday/day-off. One more day off and then back to doing the things for money.