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> For non-techies like me, Fediverse accounts and mastodon.social are non-starters.

For technical people these things should be non starters as well. It is a group of people who should be acutely aware of everything wrong with social media, and many are not.

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Not even remotely close to the same...

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/04/23/le-twittre

viermalbe: Done! Thank you.

Here is the response from Bubbles:

From: Benjamin Behnke <ben@viermal.be> Date: June 17, 2026 at 12:32:25 PM EDT To: josephstirt@gmail.com Subject: Re: I am submitting my blog for your consideration: https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/

Hi Joseph,

Thanks for reaching out. Your post frequency is too high to be listed on Bubbles. You are publishing 3 articles per day. To quote from the criteria listed in the FAQ: Moderate pace. Not more than one or two posts per day on average. Bubbles is for writers, not content machines. I hope you'll understand. Let me know if you plan to slow down :)

Cheers, Ben

Do you write a bunch of posts and the schedule them? You put out 3 posts every single day at exactly 0800, 1200 and 1600.

Yes. Just so. From 2004 to 2014 I published 8 (eight) posts daily, every day, one minute after the hour. They appeared at 8:01/9:01/10:01/11:01 am; 12:01/1:01/2:01/3:01 pm.

Oh my.

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