It's time for episode 513 of the Clockwise podcast from Relay FM recorded Wednesday, July 26, 2023.

Clockwise, Four People, Four where we always host Quadrilateral Talks.

My name is Dan Morton, and I'm joined across the internet by my good friend, my pal, my dungeon buddy, because we play Dungeons and Dragons on the internet

together for your enjoyment. It is the one and only, Micah Sargent. How are you doing today, Micah?

I'm doing well, Dan. My brain is sort of thinking about geometry, and that's your fault.

Well, parallelogram, trapezoid. I don't know where I'm going with this, but there you go. Enjoy.

You found my weakness. Geometry. Shapes are the only thing he can't handle. Well, what he can handle and what we can all handle is this show where we invite on two fantastic guests to talk about four tech topics. To my left this week, it is a producer and reporter at the Texas Standard and the host of

Parallel right here on Relay FM. It is Shelly Brisbane. Welcome back, Shelly. Hello, does somebody say

parallel? Because that's awesome. If you get messages, are they parallel grams? Like, if you get like

a feedback, you should call them. They are now. Yeah. There you go. You can have that one for free.

And to my left is the 9 to 5 Mac senior editor, all around jovial guy. It's Zach Hall. Welcome back to the show, Zach. Hey, everybody. Well, we are ready to go, which means I should kick things off with my first topic. Upheaval continues in social media.

Threads, blue sky, mastodon, and now X?

I'm curious, where are you these days?

And has your use of slash participation in social media changed significantly in the wake of all this disruption?

Shelly, we'll start with you.

Well, I guess my happy place, the place in social media that I enjoy the most is Mastodon, and some of that is because a lot of people I know are there.

And also, I've discovered a lot of people I don't know who have similar interests,

which is super fun.

I remain on Twitter.

I refuse to call it by another name until I'm forced to because I need it for work,

mostly news-related things and journalism and stuff. So I find that I have to do that. And as a

byproduct, I end up promoting things. I did not join threads because when everybody else

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