With hopeful new platforms like Bluesky popping up at a steady clip, VF's delia_cai makes the case that posting is best when posting gets strange.
Reach into the depths of your gorgeous, infinitely faceted interior world and give us a surprise; the place is, anyway. Think of it as the equivalent of your first day at a new school: Give yourself a new nickname, try on the goth boots. The whole point of enjoying a platform is figuring out what works and who gets you; here, on Bluesky, no one’s figured it out well enough to convert these interactions into fungible clout just yet. You could be anyone, as long as you’re not a total dick .
My inner pessimist will remind you that everything on the web gets ruined eventually, but the optimist would also like to posit that the only interesting things that have ever happened online came out of people trying silly things. I would also like to think of the splitting of ourselves into micro-personas, each adapted to the distinct biome of the various platforms, as a form of defiance to an inevitable future designed to harvest our human consistency.
In the interim, a place like Bluesky is a chance to get weird and banal and off-brand, and it’s the only way we’re going to have any fun until X app takes over.is weighing in on bagel flavors. The newspaper that broke Watergate is literally honking like a goose. Be brave. Be cringe. Be
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