I’m leaving Facebook by Jan 20th.
But in the process of moving to Bluesky (I’ve been on Mastodon for about 2 years), I realized there’s a gap in the kinds of public writing I like to do, a gap that FB filled — micro-blogging or long-form content where I would write short essays, 200-1000 words, not long enough for a podcast (or not specifically on climate writing or solarpunk) but something I felt called to write about and share.
Sometimes I would post that on my blog on my website, especially if it was something I wanted to share more widely — like this article on how to protect yourself from wildfire smoke — but mostly I just posted on FB and left it at that.
I realized I was leaving behind a lot of content on Facebook.
I went back to when Trump was elected the first time—that was when I started speaking out in earnest about politics on FB—and started pulling over the essays that I wanted to keep. I’m slowly populating my blog with that content, taking back from Zuckerberg the content that I’ve been feeding to his machine for over a decade. It’s too late, of course—he’s already sold ads based on it and fed it into his AI—but at least I can keep a record of what I’ve written. Sometimes I have this archival tendency to store things for the record.
Documenting the days ahead will be important as well.
Most of my social media will be short-form, high immediacy info and thoughts—Bluesky and Mastodon are good for that—and I’ll continue to grow the BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES podcast/substack, but that serves a very specific purpose (to surface hopeful climate fiction stories and talk about the struggle to build a better world, in fiction and reality).
For the other things I feel called to write about—politics, technology, things to keep yourself safe in the rocky times ahead—I’m going to use that unlimited wordcount available on my blog.
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