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dotinthesky) wrote2023-07-26 06:45 am
A New Home
It’s been 4 days since my dad flew back to the UK. A direct flight with British Airways, straight to his wife in Heathrow. She noticed the same thing as us: he has declined these past three months. She took him to Tesco yesterday and he complained he wanted to go home.
My mother also spends the day “wanting to go home” but calms down when I play her a Spotify playlist based on songs she loves. My dad also enjoyed it while he was here. The playlist’s cover shows my mom and I in Durbin, South Africa, 1979.
Yesterday, I took the plunge to finally leave Twitter. I’m now trying out Threads and Mastodon, though I have a sneaky suspicion it will be Bluesky where everyone ends up (though I can’t be sure as I haven’t been able to get an invite yet!)
Threads (@olliefern) has been accused of ripping off Twitter, but I find it more like Pinterest. There’s a lot of recipes, beautiful photography and inspirational quotes. Its downside is that you can’t search topics or choose to see updates exclusively by your followers.
Mastodon (@olliefern) is more promising though it looks foreboding and complicated at first. I chose a books-related server and I’ve been well received by fellow users.
Fresh starts are good things.
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Ideally, everyone would just return to LJ! 😁
One thing I found super useful with Twitter was to find out what was happening in the arts - events, journals seeking submissions, translation work. I wasn't sure if that was replicated in Mastodon, but it looks like it has, which is great.