We should be supporting the networks we want to succeed, but our lack of attention to them also shows how much we value them outside of flowery words.
Boost away
Matt talked about the continued decline of Mastodon, and FlohGro chimed in to say he'll boost more because you should tell your followers you think something is awesome.
Yes I'd rather Mastodon succeed because it's open and not algorithmic. It's a much better place to be than Facebook, Instagram, or X (Twitter). At the same time I find myself on less social media overall. I still think that every Twitter thread should be a blog post and that goes for Mastodon as well.
I'm trying to be more thoughtful with everything I post online, skipping one off shots of random stuff. If I expect threads to be blog posts and just don't feel the need to post random little things, what's left for Mastodon or any social media?
Still, I like FlohGro's idea of boosting more so I'll try to do that when I check in on Mastodon.
Attention shows what you value
The gap between what you say you value and how you actually spend your time is usually a matter of attention rather than values: attention that goes wherever the environment pushes it. - Choosing what you attend to is choosing your life
I tell my kids this regularly. You may say you care about...whatever...but what you actually do or pay attention to shows what you really care about.
You may say you want to read more, but if you don't make time to read you don't care about it enough to do it. You want to have read, not to actually read.
Tempted by cool features
This video on Supertag for Emacs continues to tempt me to move from Obsidian into OrgMode for my notes. I know this is likely folly, that I'll find just as many things in OrgMode frustrating as I do in Obsidian. That my workflows will need to move over to OrgMode. That I'll then have my tasks combined with notes into one big mega-app.
Yet it's still tempting.