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@c_dan4th I feel like social media has always been a way for me to keep in touch with IRL friends, going way back to the LiveJournal days. I didn't join interest groups or follow people who seemed neat, it was all about people I knew (or once in a while, friends of friends). Dreamwidth, Facebook, Twitter, BlueSky, and Mastodon, are (or were) all like that for me. The main category of exception are authors who I like and want to hear about it when they write something new. :^ )

@dawne314 @c_dan4th Ha, wow, hi! How do you two know each other? (Dawn and I know each other from volleyball, way back when; Charles and I know each other from college, even more way back when. :^ )

@c_dan4th 28/30; the other two are someone I only know from an online game (Button Men), and an author (Daniel Keyes Moran).

@ultranurd ... and yet somehow people posting to Facebook or YouTube *isn't* speech, it's an addictive drug. :^( (Perhaps SCOTUS will reverse that awful decision. Perhaps they will not, and Section 230 is dead, and the Internet as we know it along with it.)

@ultranurd Yeah, the interaction/intersection of occupational licensing and free speech is messy.

@c_dan4th Yeah, I have a rule like that for LinkedIn, which is nominally supposed to be for work connections, but I didn't always stick to it strictly.