The community of Twitter

When Twitter started going downhill, which was before Musk took over, and people started looking for alternatives I first looked at Mastodon as a replacement. It was federated (no central server or owner) and had a lot of open source options for using the tool. The issue it faced and still faces is that it is federated, meaning there are different people in different communities and getting all of those posts in a single location is a lot of work; And engaging and being engaged in those communities is just as difficult. I still have an account there and use it but the community feels less like a community and more like a bunch of tech geeks talking at each other, which is fine, but it doesn’t scratch the Twitter itch. Then Bluesky came along and had a centralized community but it seems to gravitate towards politics, which again, is fine, but I want to talk about airplanes, tech, politics, bikes, and just life in general in one place and Bluesky makes some of that possible but again,…