Serene of the Oakland Serenes

I end up paddling around in all the social media pools, but nothing measures up to my Usenet/DW combo for satisfaction and conversation. Google disappointed me by being more evil than I thought about safety and pseudonymity; Facebook started off evil, and I tolerated it until I didn't any more (I still have work accounts there: one for my day job and one for the blog, but I completely deleted my personal account); Diaspora looks fine so far, but it doesn't give me anything I can't get here, so for the 11th year in a row (I started this journal on Livejournal a little over 10 years ago), this will be my main place to do my connecting thing.

I still miss Usenet. I'm down to really only reading three groups, and two of them get fewer than 50 posts a week most weeks. The other is too busy to completely keep up with, but the (absolutely necessary for me) robust killfile I have in there makes it easier.

I guess it's good that there's not more for me to keep up with, since school starts in a couple weeks, but I still kind of wish there were.