Hoping to see every single person on Bluesky at Mark & Nancy's Christmas Show, Dec 19 at the Avalon Lounge in Catskill, NY.
Tickets: www.viewcy.com/event/mark_l...

Eating pie 2 days *before* Thanksgiving!

This is why people go dental.

This is why people go postal.

Hmmm

And also somehow related, @clivethompson.bsky.social from 2010 writing on the optimal size of social networks.

But of course the web was awesome for a while. And then Facebook was awesome for a while, but the cracks started to show.

Somehow related: I just re-watched INSIDE MAN, and the setting was so clearly NYC between 9/11 and the dawn of the iPhone that I got a little teary.

Crucial reference point for me: The most useful social/fun/loving social network I was ever on was a dialup (and then telnet) BBS (Echo) that I joined in 1994, just at the dawn of Mosaic, the graphical web browser (which dawn would ultimately spell that BBS's demise as a functional space).

...which I will try to find time to articulate later! But I'm sure there are different answers depending on yr age, different uses (search, social media), occupation, etc.

(want to quietly tag @clivethompson.bsky.social @maura.bsky.social @jonathanhoefler.bsky.social @lissaharris.bsky.social ... )

y.yarn.co/5ad5b5b1-8d7...

attn: @maura.bsky.social I expect a whole chapter on this

It's getting to where this is an appropriate punchline to every story every day.