So I'm not really sure what I'm going to be doing going forward. I've mainly shifted to Tumblr as my social media of choice, because of how the community works vs mastodon. Tumblr isn't a good fit for my usual tech stuff, I find, and while Twitter is right out, mastodon isn't much better to be honest.

So the three paths forward I'm weighting up are:
1. Hiatus from tech stuff for the most part. This is basically what I'm doing now. I'm still doing some hacking for the death generator and occasionally working on terrible keyboards, but I've stopped with teardowns and retrotech. This is not a good idea in the long run, honestly, but I don't know if situations will change, so it's the safest.

2. Try to go hard into YouTube for retrotech. I have historically wanted to do this but failed at it, for a lot of reasons, mainly involving my ADHD. Maybe refocusing my attention there will get some better results these days? I've seen some improvement in my writing after all my time on Twitter, maybe it'll be easier to write scripts now, which'll hopefully make the whole process of YouTube videos significantly easier?

3. Fully pull out of retrotech/teardowns. This one makes the most financial sense, to be honest. I have to pay quite a lot to keep my collection stored, and I'm currently unemployed and not really making money off it or getting any real enjoyment from it either. I could significantly consolidate by putting stuff up on ebay/Craigslist and save a lot of money. If I'm not going to have an ongoing outlet for it, this makes the most sense.

I lied, there's a 4th path:
do more tech on Tumblr.
I'm mainly discounting this one because while I've done it before and had good (initial) results, it doesn't really work the same way as Twitter and mastodon, so I have to essentially build blog posts instead of the chain-of-thought ADHD rambles I'm known for. It's not a great fit for me, but I can technically do it. I'm not sure if it's as worth it as YouTube would be... I have a much smaller potential audience there.

I'm also kinda negative to this idea because one of my test posts along these lines got posted to hacker news, and that was the same relentlessly negative experience it always is, if not worse. They showed up in my messages and asks to spam slurs at me.

I'm not really considering "5: do retrotech and teardowns on mastodon" at this point. Maybe I will try again later if the culture of mastodon shifts as more people move here from Twitter? But my experience so far isn't good enough to justify continuing.