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People keep learning the wrong lessons from all this social media stuff. "Clearly just move to fedi" "Bluesky is going to be totally different". The lesson you needed to learn, which was how we used to do things in the good old internet we all pine for, is diversify your internet presence. Be on a lot of websites. Be on tons of platforms. Use several messaging apps. I'm not going to tell you which ones, that's up to you, but have redundancy in your social networks online. Federated decentralized platforms are great, but you can still put all your eggs into one basket with them. Don't! Have fifteen different places you can reach out to the same fuckin friend. Spread yourself out. We used to visit tons of websites and post on dozens of forums AND run our own personal site. Continuing to use exactly one platform and cling to it for dear life doesn't help as much as you think.

Edit: and just to make this clear, because this is already getting boosted by folks: this is NOT about how you need to join Bluesky. Bluesky vs Fedi is the fight of the week but this is big picture stuff. Don't mistake what I'm saying here. Replace Bluesky with anything. XMPP, IRC, Discord, Signal, Facebook, Twitter, Pillowfort, Reddit, it literally doesn't matter which thing. You pick whatever things you want to join or don't, but for the love of god quit picking exactly one thing to be the single pillar supporting your entire life online. Spread yourself out as much as you can.