Times have changed rapidly on the Internet, the silos are
becoming an annoyance and threat to society. I've quit X
(former Twitter) and my ephemeral Instagram account for
good. My need for social interaction is fullfilled
sufficiently by other means.
At this moment I believe federated solutions like Friendica,
Mastodon, etc. to be more appropiate. If you are interested
to switch I'll be more then happy to help you out via my
company MagmaSoft.
You can find my old stance on Social media below.
I'm a rather shy guy, at least on the Internet. You won't find
much chatter on my Facebook, Google+ or whatever else social
media platform account you can find me. That's intentional.
That comes with my job as a system administrator:
confidentiality and privacy comes first! I have to handle
private stuff of people and I'm trying hard to keep it private -
even to me. That's not and easy task. So less to share is less
to care.
On the other hand, The Internet is just the job side of my
live. I use it for research, for work, for training, but not
for play or conversation. I prefer meeting people face to face
and sharing just what we personally decide to share in these
moments. Social Media automates diffusion to anybody every time
without taking care about importance or appropriateness
of this specific type, quality and amount of
information for that specific person. I for sure care!
People own their data - this was how it was played when I
entered the realms of The Internet quite some time ago and these
days the IndieWeb movement
has framed this into a great slogan: Your content is
yours. Things have changed since Social Media have
concentrated masses into big
data silos. It's
alluring to get such great services, have all your friends and
more people you ever would think of within the reach of one
mouse click. But: your content is not yours anymore.
So what are these silo accounts of mine for? Reachability.
You want to connect with me - do so with whichever silo you
are most familiar - I hope we have an overlap, if not, there
are all the traditional means to
reach out to me too. Even walking by and knocking on my door.
Visibility? Maybe at some moment I will use one of these
gadgets the IndieWeb is creating
to bridge my
technical blog
posts to Twitter or so.