# A Quick Pulse Poll: Where Are You Spending Your Social Media Attention
**URL:** https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/a-quick-pulse-poll-where-are-you-spending-your-social-media-attention/7207
**Category:** The Plaza
**Tags:** oeg\_pulse
**Created:** [December 16, 2024, 11:59pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/a-quick-pulse-poll-where-are-you-spending-your-social-media-attention/7207 "2024-12-16T23:59:12Z")
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2024, 11:59pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/a-quick-pulse-poll-where-are-you-spending-your-social-media-attention/7207/1 "2024-12-16T23:59:12Z")
Before the holidays, please chime in on a subject that has been flowing in many places and we are very interested in. Can you spare a few moments to share what you are paying attention to?
[ ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/67953162@N00/7549032418)
_[paying attention](https://flickr.com/photos/mythoto/7549032418) flickr photo by [Leonard J Matthews](https://flickr.com/people/mythoto) shared under a [Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)_
Given the fading of the service that used to be called Twitter, but more forces at work, we are wanting to get a sense of where the open education community is placing their attention?
_Poll ([view on site](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/a-quick-pulse-poll-where-are-you-spending-your-social-media-attention/7207/1))_
For it’s alignment with decentralized openness I had strong hopes for the [fediverse](https://connect.oeglobal.org/tag/fediverse), many others have too, and [OEGlobal is still going to have a presence there](https://social.fossdle.org/@oeglobal), BUT… we see many spreading to other spaces. Maybe that is just how it goes.
Please expand more on your ideas, thinkings, reactions below.
And there is another level of decision for organizations. I have been tracking “Saying Goodbye to X” announcements from [BCCampus](https://bccampus.ca/2024/11/26/why-were-saying-goodbye-to-x-formerly-twitter/), [JISC](https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/our-statement-on-leaving-x-twitter), [SURF](https://www.surf.nl/en/news/surf-stops-using-x-twitter), [ALT](https://www.alt.ac.uk/news/all_news/our-position-xtwitter) and more.
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### Author:  [@econproph](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/econproph)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/a-quick-pulse-poll-where-are-you-spending-your-social-media-attention/7207/2 "2024-12-17T00:13:56Z")
Y U NO mention good old fashioned blogging w/ RSS and replies??
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/a-quick-pulse-poll-where-are-you-spending-your-social-media-attention/7207/3 "2024-12-17T00:49:14Z")
Hey Jim, NOBODY does that, eh? That counts if you say so, under “Other”. Everything is game.
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### Author:  [@lightweight](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/lightweight)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 3:10am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/a-quick-pulse-poll-where-are-you-spending-your-social-media-attention/7207/4 "2024-12-17T03:10:44Z")
I still blog (with RSS) from time-to-time. I’m also active on Matrix (a federated open source messaging system) as well. I avoid Slack or MS Teams entirely. Mastodon is my main social network, with other Fediverse apps also featuring (PieFed, PixelFed, and PeerTube, among others). The Fediverse is _definitely_ the way forward for academia. LinkedIn is already fake & useless. BlueSky & Threads is subject to the same structural flaws that Twitter is/was, and will inevitably go the same way.
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### Author:  [@AjitaD](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/AjitaD)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 9:52am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/a-quick-pulse-poll-where-are-you-spending-your-social-media-attention/7207/5 "2024-12-17T09:52:45Z")
Instagram!! and then there is Pinterest!
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 3:04pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/a-quick-pulse-poll-where-are-you-spending-your-social-media-attention/7207/6 "2024-12-17T15:04:50Z")
Indeed Ajita, I realized after I created the poll I left off Instagram.
I have a troubled relationship with the platform, the ties to ads. I recently counted in 22 “posts” 11 were not photos from my friends, but ads, suggestions, etc. Yet it personally matters for friends there. I’m planning to dial back and focus my photosharing on flickr and pixelfed, which yes, there could have been a category there for those places plus pinterest.
I rarely go to Pinterest, is there much social interaction?
Mostly we are interested to see where the global audience puts their energy. Thanks for your input
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### Author:  [@Downes](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/Downes)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/a-quick-pulse-poll-where-are-you-spending-your-social-media-attention/7207/7 "2024-12-17T16:24:37Z")
Blogs and RSS still matter to me, even if Google is trying to kill them.
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### Author:  [@Downes](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/Downes)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/a-quick-pulse-poll-where-are-you-spending-your-social-media-attention/7207/8 "2024-12-17T16:26:17Z")
And actually, now that I think about it, distributed identity - so we can have a single identity across multiple networks - will be really important, I think. But it’s not the sort of thing that can be solved with tech; providers have to agree to allow this.
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### Author:  [@lightweight](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/lightweight)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/a-quick-pulse-poll-where-are-you-spending-your-social-media-attention/7207/10 "2024-12-17T18:28:15Z")
That’s true, Stephen, to the extent that social media is governed by ‘providers’. To the extent we do it for ourselves (or our communities, without a profit motive), there’s more latitude.
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 6:41pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/a-quick-pulse-poll-where-are-you-spending-your-social-media-attention/7207/11 "2024-12-17T18:41:49Z")
My and many others low tech method is using the same username and icon everywhere
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 9:57pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/a-quick-pulse-poll-where-are-you-spending-your-social-media-attention/7207/12 "2024-12-17T21:57:32Z")
I found you in Pixelfed, I spotted 11 @lightweight s on various fediverse services. See the handle is the key
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### Author:  [@lightweight](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/lightweight)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 10:09pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/a-quick-pulse-poll-where-are-you-spending-your-social-media-attention/7207/13 "2024-12-17T22:09:13Z")
Heh heh, yep. I’m honoured that you looked, @cogdog!
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### Author:  [@Downes](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/Downes)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2024, 2:33am UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/a-quick-pulse-poll-where-are-you-spending-your-social-media-attention/7207/14 "2024-12-18T02:33:35Z")
Not everyone can do this. I have to race to a service as soon as it opens in order to grab the coveted ‘Downes’ name.
As for depending on providers - most every bit of software in the world is written by someone who is not us. Even open source software. We have to depend on the cooperation of enough of these people to make distributed ID a thing.
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### Author:  [@cogdog](https://connect.oeglobal.org/u/cogdog)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2024, 7:30pm UTC](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/a-quick-pulse-poll-where-are-you-spending-your-social-media-attention/7207/15 "2024-12-18T19:30:39Z")
For the 43% who replied to the poll with “Mastodon” Yay. If you want to be part of the OEGlobal Fediverse directory, all you have to do is [edit your profile](https://connect.oeglobal.org/my/preferences/profile) to add/edit your fediverse username ([full details](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/oeg-fediverse-directory/4364/1)) We take also take ones for Threads and Bluesky.
I have created a Mastodon data list you can import to have a List view (shows all posts in a column by the 102 people there) or you can choose to import them all as a “Starter Pack” - find out [how to get and use these to import into your own account](https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/oeg-fediverse-directory/4364/62).