I spent the morning redirecting my domains and so on with micro.blog. I guess I am doing this thing.
I’ve spent some time working on my site notes page, in an effort to describe what I’m trying to do here. The TLDR of it all is I want to like blogging as much as I did back in 2004. Simplify, simplify.
No tags. No categories. No footnotes.
Hell, I may even put up a blogroll.
I have been complaining about social media for at least 7 years, maybe more. I don’t like the way it captures my attention, the way it sucks me in, the way it kills my mood and makes me distrustful of people.
Yesterday I saw a positive post about a thing currently in the zeitgeist, and whose viewpoint I agreed with. My response was not to share it or comment on it, but instead I went to the comments because I wanted to see what the horrible people would say about it.
I’m not really into technology, but I follow and read a lot of technology folks.
H’mmm, that’s not quite right. I obviously use tech - like I am right now! - but I don’t really care how it works. I’m sort of like the guy who drives a hi-performance car, but has no desire to actually understand how fuel injectors actually work. I can change the oil and know to rotate the tires, but have no desire to actually build my own car.
I like learning new things. It’s sort of my toxic trait - I would rather learn something new than master the existing thing I know. It’s probably ADHD-related - God knows everything else in my chaos-Muppet existence is.
Like, last night I came across a video of someone silver-soldering a ring, and ended up in a rabbit hole on YouTube watching folks make jewlery, and now maybe I want to learn how to do that?
I have been on social media since the early days. I have been blogging since 2003.
I have friends from all around the world because of social media. I have raised several million dollars for good causes because of social media. My livelihood, my relationships, and so much enjoyment I get from my life is because of social media.
But I’m tired of social media. Or, rather, I’m tired of the ways the social media companies manipulate us.