I’ve been sick this past week. Nothing too major, just ongoing stuff that I should have sorted ages ago, mostly just requiring a full stop, and resting. My recovery period (and subsequent not being in work) has coincided with the explosion of BlueSky as a place where a lot of gaming chat happens – it’s finally overtaken twitter and seems to be becoming the major place for short-form TTRPG discussion, memes, and general bantz. Which of course has led to me spending a lot of time on my phone scrolling through feeds and being barely entertained by gaming “discussion.”

And with it, there’s been an opportunity to practise good social media management, for many of us starting from scratch the way we wished we started on twitter. And subsequent accusations of BlueSky being an echo chamber, and a few of the bad actors from twitter trying to make their way across.

So it’s a good time to remind myself, and you, that a useful approach with gaming social media is to remember that you don’t have to like everything. In fact, you might like things that some other people think are terrible, and you might dislike things that other people think are good. And that’s fine; even (especially) in TTRPGs.

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