The IT Nerd

Since Twitter became a “hellscape” under Elon Musk’s leadership, I’ve largely moved my cross posting activities from Twitter to Mastodon. And if I look at my numbers since I did this, my engagement numbers haven’t changed. That indicates to me that I don’t need Twitter to be successful as a tech blogger.

So that leads to this question. Why take a look Bluesky if Mastodon is working for me? To answer this, let me explain what Bluesky is.

Bluesky, also known as Bluesky Social is a microblogging site that is an alternative to Twitter. Currently it’s an invitation only platform. But there’s plans to open it to the public. It’s had a rocky start with site outages, a strained relationship with Black users, and the fact that it kind of feels like Twitter. But it shows some degree of promise. And that promise encouraged me to give this a shot when a friend reached out with an invite code for me.

At present, I have created a Bluesky account which is @theitnerd.bsky.social. Right now I don’t have anything posted on it.But the plan is to link my blog to it to do the sort of cross posting that I do on Mastodon. Then I will be able to see what value that Bluesky does or doesn’t add to what I do. This I think will be interesting once I get everything up and running.

This should be interesting…. Watch this space.

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