I don't know if Twitter was ever a great place for discussion, but there was a time when it was an at least somewhat useful way to tell people about whatever nonsense was going on in my head. Alas, the current algorithm really only incentivizes rage-baiting engagement farming. This has impacted my personal work in two ways. First, fewer folks are on Twitter generally, so the audience is smaller overall. Second, if one does not participate in rage-baiting engagement farming, it's becoming damnably hard to show up via the algorithm at all . Granted, I've only ever wanted to write whatever's on my mind for whoever cares to see it. However, even that requires a platform. At the same time, I've thought for a while that I should really use this platform more and those platforms less. And yet, for convenience sake, so much nonsense winds up over there while *my* actual blog sites largely empty. So. This is the first of a series of recent random thoughts that I initially d