why i'm creating this blog
Oct. 7th, 2023 03:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xx_gothaggot_xxI don't think this is standard procedure, or maybe it is. Genuinely I wouldn't know. But I guess it makes sense for my first entry to be about why I'm starting this blog.
I was recently introduced to this website by a friend (hi tundra ^^). I am sort of a copycat towards them, tbh. They are really cool and find lots of interesting things online, so when they try out something new online I tend to give it a go too. With this in mind it's convenient that they decided to start a little blog in here for themself right when I was trying to find a new social media to call home.
I know I'm not alone in feeling disappointed in the way things are currently going with the most popular social media platforms. I still use them and don't really plan on stopping (at least not yet), that said it's rather sad to watch as these platforms, which were already homogenized and oriented around advertisements in my earliest memories, become more and more so.
This recently hit me the hardest when Elon Musk decided to buy Twitter. Again, I don't really think that platform was ever all that good, but it was lots of fun. For years I held tight to that damn website until it became the main avenue I interacted with most of my friends through. It still is. Seeing something that is even more dear to me than I realized be messed with in such a manner, almost as if the developers started trying to kill it has been a rather melancholic and stressful experience. It seems really dumb to feel this way about a for-profit company's little attempt at creating a cash cow, but being dumb is in character for me, so I guess I can't complain.
More and more I've been wishing to distance myself from the so-called X Social, I ever logged out of my account recently, planning to never come back, planning on sticking to Tumblr from now on, until I remembered that indeed it is my only way to interact with many of my friends and noticed that Tumblr isn't in much better of a situation.
I'm just tired of having no place online that I can trust, y'know. They are fun, but also so dreadful to use, each new scroll a reminder of how exploitative the whole concept of social media has become. And I do understand that simply leaving these behind and focusing on things that don't bring me this sort of discomfort would be for the best, but I'm not really willing to. Call it addiction, I wouldn't say I disagree, but these have become essencial parts of my day to day life. I can't leave, but I can try and find a safe-haven, one that doesn't face the same problems as my other social medias. That's where I want this blog to come in.
I honestly was always interested in the idea of blogging (forums are way too confusing for me, chat rooms are way too stressful, and posts are fun but completely filled with toxicity, so blogging felt like a nice cozy alternative), but I had no idea what to blog about. I never thought that it could simply be whatever is on my mind. Until now.
So that's what I'm here to do, blog about whatever I want. Similar to what I do on twitter, but less snappy, more personal, and without the direct influence of billionaires. Maybe with time I will transition completely to here and forget Twitter, or Tiktok, or Tumblr. I sort of hope so.
I was recently introduced to this website by a friend (hi tundra ^^). I am sort of a copycat towards them, tbh. They are really cool and find lots of interesting things online, so when they try out something new online I tend to give it a go too. With this in mind it's convenient that they decided to start a little blog in here for themself right when I was trying to find a new social media to call home.
I know I'm not alone in feeling disappointed in the way things are currently going with the most popular social media platforms. I still use them and don't really plan on stopping (at least not yet), that said it's rather sad to watch as these platforms, which were already homogenized and oriented around advertisements in my earliest memories, become more and more so.
This recently hit me the hardest when Elon Musk decided to buy Twitter. Again, I don't really think that platform was ever all that good, but it was lots of fun. For years I held tight to that damn website until it became the main avenue I interacted with most of my friends through. It still is. Seeing something that is even more dear to me than I realized be messed with in such a manner, almost as if the developers started trying to kill it has been a rather melancholic and stressful experience. It seems really dumb to feel this way about a for-profit company's little attempt at creating a cash cow, but being dumb is in character for me, so I guess I can't complain.
More and more I've been wishing to distance myself from the so-called X Social, I ever logged out of my account recently, planning to never come back, planning on sticking to Tumblr from now on, until I remembered that indeed it is my only way to interact with many of my friends and noticed that Tumblr isn't in much better of a situation.
I'm just tired of having no place online that I can trust, y'know. They are fun, but also so dreadful to use, each new scroll a reminder of how exploitative the whole concept of social media has become. And I do understand that simply leaving these behind and focusing on things that don't bring me this sort of discomfort would be for the best, but I'm not really willing to. Call it addiction, I wouldn't say I disagree, but these have become essencial parts of my day to day life. I can't leave, but I can try and find a safe-haven, one that doesn't face the same problems as my other social medias. That's where I want this blog to come in.
I honestly was always interested in the idea of blogging (forums are way too confusing for me, chat rooms are way too stressful, and posts are fun but completely filled with toxicity, so blogging felt like a nice cozy alternative), but I had no idea what to blog about. I never thought that it could simply be whatever is on my mind. Until now.
So that's what I'm here to do, blog about whatever I want. Similar to what I do on twitter, but less snappy, more personal, and without the direct influence of billionaires. Maybe with time I will transition completely to here and forget Twitter, or Tiktok, or Tumblr. I sort of hope so.
