I've treated facebook as a write-only medium for several years, and probably 50% of my posts there to my relatively small network (< 100) have been split betwee

I've treated facebook as a write-only medium for several years, and probably 50% of my posts there to my relatively small network (< 100) have been split between news articles about facebook management/algorithms/etc being harmful, and droll triteness. I feel my propagation suffers as a result. A decade ago I experimented with dual-posting to FB and ... whatever that Ruby-based alternative was, that Zuck famously invested in, but to which I have zero memory of the name right now. A friend described it at the time as 'shouting into the void'. I still thought it was worthwhile to duplicate posts manually -- automatic federation was obviously never going to happen, so it was an ethical duty to ease others into the new world. I think we were perhaps a decade too early. I'm on mastodon now, of course, although only as a consumer. And I somehow missed the myspace epoch entirely. So witnessing in real-time the implosion of twitter is quite the delight.