• DANCE—like you’ve never been hurt.
• WORK—like no one’s watching.
• LOVE—like you don’t need the money.

Fog enshrouds palm trees. Easter, 2023. Redondo Beach, Southern California

It’s the Tuesday after Easter, and the fog has still not lifted. Will no one rid us of this noisome fog?!

Although there remain many Twitter accounts which I enjoy following, Twitter has become an unreliable place, after Elon Musk bought it.

His changes have ended Twitter as an epoch in popular online (“social”) media. The machines may have constituted a “platform,” but—as something in which a great many people participated—Twitter was an epoch; a moment; a murmuration among humans. Whatever it had been—now it is over.

In reaction, I have opened an account on Mastodon: @burbridge@mastodon.social. A “fresh start,” I guess!

Mastodon won’t be a resumption of what was happening on Twitter. Mastodon may not get to be a “moment” at all. We’ll see.

I haven’t yet posted anything to the account. Still thinking about it: To whom will the posts be addressed? Who is this other community? Is that what it is—a “community”? Or more like a town square—an agora; or a marketplace? A commons—yes, that’s more like it.