Writer's Grove

The New MicroBloggin’ Space

So this dude had $44 billion, and instead of helping people with all that money or even allowing his workers to unionize and earn a decent living, he decided to buy and destroy a social media platform.

I’m honestly okay with it—Twitter was already toxic and unfun. The ability of things to go viral was occasionally a good thing, but more often what happened was people dogpiled and harassed and spewed inflammatory stuff to get engagement and…yeah. It was icky. So my account is active, but I don’t visit it and it’s just gonna sit there until such time as Twitter becomes viable again (which may never happen).

In the meantime, I’m still on Instagram (username @kevinhearne) but have also set up a space at Mastodon. My username there is @kevinhearne@ohai.social if you’re already tooting. And if you’d like to sign up for the platform—you can use any server and still follow me—here’s an invitation.

What I’ve started to do—and will continue to do—is check out some hashtags to find folks who will be sharing nature photos and giving them a follow. I’m following a few journalists as well. I’ll of course be talking about books and tacos and so on too, but mostly I’m interested in this new space that’s sort of designed from the ground up to limit toxicity. I’m not sure how to find other writers very well yet, but hopefully I’ll get that figured out soon. I hope to see you there.

Billionaires shouldn’t exist. That is all.