Recently John Welch, the author of the TTABlog, posted to the e-Trademarks listserv to ask this:
I’ve been tweeting my blog posts for many years now, but I am fed up with the increasingly vile content on X/Twitter.
Can anyone recommend a good alternative?
Several listserv members offered very helpful suggestions. Perhaps the most helpful response was from Rebecca Tushnet, who wrote:
It is true, by the way, that John’s TTABlog is indispensable.
I have just now added a couple of plugins to my blog that I hope will automatically feed my blog postings to both Mastodon and Bluesky. I would be grateful if a reader who uses Mastodon can take a look to see if I succeeded. Likewise, I would be grateful if a reader who uses Bluesky can take a look to see if I succeeded.
I have also added an RSS feed icon which you can see at right. I would be grateful if a reader who uses an RSS reader can take a look to see if I succeeded.
Hi Carl, I haven’t tried any of these social medica networks but I did find a good article that compares Bluesky, Threads and Mastodon here: https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-tried-replacing-twitter-with-bluesky-threads-and-mastodon-heres-what-i-found/
Good luck. I have abandoned my Twitter but occasionally check in because hey, Yoko Ono follows me. I feel like I owe it to her 🙂