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How and why I moved from a Bluesky server to a Blacksky server

Since Twitter turned into a fascist hellhole under Elon Musk, Bluesky has become my favorite social media site. But Bluesky has its own issues, primarily centered around a series of…

Greg November 13, 2025

Politics Tech

Why I deleted Threads (and Instagram)

UPDATE: 01/23/2025: I deleted Instagram, too. This week Meta announced new moderation policies that specifically allow anti-LGBQT rhetoric that was previously disallowed. It's even worse than it sounds: The new…

Greg January 10, 2025

Helping Hands Politics Tech

Finally added a real newsletter to this site!

Big news: I've set up a Personal & Political newsletter to accompany this site! I've been thinking about this for a year or two and finally had the time to…

Greg January 2, 2025

Life Tech

Bluesky hygiene and safety

In the weeks since the election and in the midst the giant surge of new accounts on Bluesky, I've seen multiple people talking about bad vibes on the site due…

Greg December 20, 2024

Tech

The WordPress/Jetpack/Tumblr/Automattic “A.I.” feed and Firehose situation and how I’ve tried to opt out as best as I think I can at this point

3/4/2024: BIG UPDATE! I just heard back from Brandon Kraft, who describes himself on Mastodon as "Director of Engineering with Automattic working on the Jetpack plugin for #Wordpress." Kraft had…

Greg March 3, 2024