# Social
*Entered: emacs on daily driver*
*Date: 20221121*
*Soundtrack: The Clash - Spanish Bombs*
## My first foray into social media
I have had a computer online since 1997, and a smart phone
off and on since 2004 (got sick of email on phone for a few
years). Aside form creating a linkedin account to stop the
invites from coming to my work email, my social media
participation had been limited to, if this counts, a few
BBSes in the olden days, then renewed interest in BBSes in
1997 and again the last year or so, the obligatory needs of
amateur radio (qrz.com, qsl.net, etc) and more recently a
shell account on SDF, and now a full-fledged gopher site
that reaches as many as tens of people a year.
I just never saw the draw of MySpace, FaceBook or Twitter as
they released and got huge. I mean, I immediately saw the
value in link analysis and marketing, just not the draw in
voluntarily participating in that link analysis and
marketing.
That said, after reading about Mastodon on SDF for a while,
my curiosity finally got the best of me, and I finally
checked it out, but only just after the mass exodus from
Twitter started, so I really don't even know what it looked
like prior to that.
I created an account on the mastodon.radio instance, because
that seemed to be the most obvious choice, and I immediately
ran into several folks in the US and EU that I know from my
radio node/BBS, that was like a reunion of sorts, pretty
cool. But it's now just one more thing that I have to open a
browser for while still running this "living in emacs"
experiment, and admittedly, I already have a remmina
instance open right now to run FT8 on an HF radio through
the Pi in my garage.
But overall, for a social media feed, mastodon.radio is
pretty nice, I can even post from a radio using APRS, that
was already a thing with Twitter, but still pretty cool.
