Organizing My Comms Channels

Recently I've been thinking a lot about how I want to organize my channels.

I'm happy that I've been able to keep up again with the blog. Last year there was this amazing blog post about why we should be blogging in this day and age, which I agree with 100%. I've been making an effort to post here semi-regularly and it has been working, since I even started to post more in my work blog too.

Since I created my guestbook I got a grand total of ONE comment (thank you!), and a trickle of one or two spambots a day, which I'm surprisingly okay with?

But what else? Social media. I have two fediverse accounts: The one I created first was a transplant of my twitter account, so I was trying to post "stuff that matters" there: Research and World Affairs that I care about. Eventually it became clear that my research community was mostly not coming to the fediverse, and that account became mostly my political hot takes.

A few months after that I created a "slacking" account for talking about games. Eventually, that morphed into the account where I talk to my friends and follow people posting cool images and pico8 stuff, which I guess is what I really want from social media?

Because of that, recently I was thinking about folding my "serious" account, but then I figured that I actually need a space to be a grump about the world sometimes, so that will stay for a while. But I've been thinking about autodeleting the posts from both accounts, to force myself to put more permanent stuff here on the blog.

What else? Discord. I have a personal discord server that I made a few years ago and now is a ghost town, and another discord server for my research group, but now that the enshittification of discord is looming over the horizon, I'm wondering if I should try to get a forum set up for my lab students. Maybe it is time to give a second look at discourse, or just bite it and necro a phpBB instance back to life. That said, I do appreciate having the means to instant message my lab students (and giving them the means to message each other), so I need to think this over a little bit.

What else? There is a bunch of little projects I want to do related to communication (such as setting up a webpage for the game servers I run for my friends, or running bots), but these thoughts are still ghosts in the murky depths of my medium term memory, so I guess I will leave this here.

Thanks for listening me ramble on!