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A good list to follow. And I want to emphasize a phrase in the description: “JOIN THE CONVERSATION.” Too often, social media photo posting brings “likes” but little conversation. But many of us welcome discussion of our photographs and related subjects. When you ”join in” you add value, too.

I would love to see this group help the photography community here move away from worthless hashtags and towards actual conversation. Imagine putting all that blue garbage in a print publication or on a name card in a gallery. It’s the opposite of art.

1/x Most of us are fans of seeing our work in print and printed. :-) Conversation is a great thing, and many of us welcome it — or engage in it elsewhere and/or write on photographic subjects. That’s somewhat limited on social media in general and specifically on Bluesky for two reasons: 1. The…

2/. …character limit for posts makes it difficult to dig too deeply into subjects. 2. Lots of people simply don’t read multi-post threads and even fewer click through to online articles we share. OK, 3: You also can’t form “groups” in the same way we could on Facebook, which I left behind…

This annoys me too about @bsky.app -- I understand limitations have their benefits, but I often have to repeatedly prune what I write (incl. this post via occasional awkward abbreviations I'd never otherwise use). Not sure how to ideally solve it, but +50% to the limit would be nice in the meantime.