Take Advantage of Free Verification on Bluesky and Mastodon
You can be anyone you want to be on the internet, and it’s true. I once ran a short-lived social media account for SuperDuck, my pet house duck. As far as I know I’m not a duck, though my duck thinks that he’s a “people”. Meta allows you...
Who are you letting into your online “living room”?
Recently I heard an excellent analogy that our online social media profiles are like an online “living room”. You wouldn’t open the door and let just anyone into your physical living space, so why would you do it online? It made sense to me and...
Mastodon for Authors
With the spectacular and foreseen implosion of Twitter over the past year or more, and corporate-owned social media making it more difficult for smaller creators to gain traction, not to mention followers, and engagement, where is an author to go in search of readers?...