My presence on this platform is not an endorsement of its CEO

Twitter users in 2021:

"If you're still on Meta platforms, you're a terrible person." Threads users in 2023: "If you're still on Twitter, you're a terrible person." Bluesky users in 2025: "If you're still on Meta platforms, you're a terrible person."It never ends. 😒—Me today, here, here, and here
If the character limits in my online profiles would allow it, I would add this disclaimer to my bio:"My presence on this platform is not an endorsement of its CEO."
I wasn't expecting to have to rant about something on here so early in the year, but as usual, I am disgusted, but not surprised. Mark Zuckerberg is clearly complying with the wishes of the Trump regime, despite his great wealth and power. And now a new migration is underway, away from Threads, Instagram, and Facebook. While I understand and respect the sentiment, I'm not interested in deleting my accounts as a form of protest. I would prefer not to spend my time in a state of digital exodus from one platform to another. I also don't want to put all my digital eggs in one basket. I wouldn't even be on all these platforms if Google Reader was still around and if Flickr still dominated image searches.But that's not the world we live in. We live in a world where it seems like everything is at risk of being bought out by a terrible billionaire or a greedy private equity firm. Bluesky, they tell me, is somehow an exception to this, and though I would like to believe them, at this point, I doubt it. And even if that is true, for now, I don't feel like it's the right place for me to promote my work. Bluesky is so dogmatic about alt text that I feel like it's just a matter of time before I get reprimanded for not including detailed descriptions of my abstract art for people who are never going to buy it. I know it's going to take time for the right audience to find me. Starting over can be exhausting. I don't enjoy doing it.I also don't enjoy being judged for the actions of the owner of a platform I happen to be using. I didn't create any of my accounts to support the people who built the websites and apps they're on. I created them to support myself. Without an agent or a gallery representing me, being on social media has helped me promote my work. And frankly, as a Black woman living in a society that is openly racist and sexist, I often have no choice but to make the most of environments that were not set up for me to thrive in. Standing my ground in inhospitable places could be good practice for surviving our coming broligarch dystopia.I feel like nobody on other platforms believes me when I tell them there are still good people on Twitter, but even now I still see them because I have blocked so many bad actors over the years. I don't care if I have to block a million accounts. I'll do what I need to do to make sure I have a decent experience online in spite of everything. But if you're no longer on social media, you can still find me here, because out of all the platforms I post on, my favorite one to use is still my blog.