Peter "Poly" Paterson<p>Absolutely loving my Social Media life these days.<br>As I say to many, your mileage may differ. I think it all comes down to who you chose to engage with, and the topics you reply to.<br>We all have the choice to be on certain services and not on others. We should all abide and respect the choices others make in this regard.<br><br>My main Social Media area these days is the Fediverse, particularly through a GoToSocial ActivityPub instance named Polymaths.social. Wonderful software, instance, admin, and neighbours!<br>Since 2009 I was on a Mastodon instance named LinuxRocks.online. It started off really well with good chats on the local timeline. However, over the past year certain people and their followers came in, the local chats got strained, and quite painful at times, and I knew I needed to move on. I was friendly with the owner, and moderators, but the time had come.<br><br>To access Polymaths.social I use Phanpy on a browser, and Tusky on my Android Phone.<br>For browser access I did use Semaphore for a while. Very clean and effective, but Phanpy is like KDE vs Mate. To me this is a good thing. I do use Semaphore at times to check on Follow Requests and to currently "Delete and Redraft" as needed.<br><br>Telegram is a large part of my life. I use it to talk with many friends, including Arianna and my Sister Catriona, podcrawl and Linux groups, as well as my own Christian group.<br><br>I'm still on Facebook, and yes I question that daily.<br>For now I am there.<br>As I said at the start, this is my choice, and I am there for really good friends, family, and groups.<br><br>A few weeks ago I activated my Instagram account, which had been set up for no follows and privates, just so I could view content as needed.<br>I was getting so many requests from good friends if I was on there, and ok... "caved in", but my involvement is relatively minimal. Mostly posting my own photos and commenting on those of friends.<br><br>Well, that's my online life, and it is good.<br>Feel free to reply back with questions, and DM as needed.<br><br><a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/gotosocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoToSocial</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/activitypub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/phanpy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Phanpy</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/tusky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tusky</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/semaphore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Semaphore</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/telegram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Telegram</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a></p>