It’s been a couple weeks at this point since the Twitter takeover was made official, the staff gutted, and the site is starting to have telltale little hiccups here and there as the world’s most Divorced man tries to either make any money whatsoever or hell maybe he’s deliberately trying to ruin it. Facebook continues to be Facebook, and I’m not really in the mood to sign up for a half dozen alternative sites waiting to see where my friends and people I just like following wind up. (I did sign up for cohost but I’m in pending status right now behind roughly 11,000 other new registrants they must be manually approving so who knows if/when I get around to using that.)
In light of this, TOS changes elsewhere, and just generally being kind of sick of social media, I think I’m REALLY, ACTUALLY going to be posting more here again. It’s not as ‘discoverable’ as a lot of places to post, but it’s my space and I can post as long and/or explicit as I want to (not that I… do, really.)
In a way it’s kind of funny, when I converted the site to WordPress back in ’07 or so, I did it grudgingly because it seemed like it would make updating easier and the idea of having comments seemed kind of dumb. I didn’t like the idea of Livejournal-izing my game reviews or galleries, back then that was what I used my Livejournal or Tumblr or whatever for! But now that we’re looking at Twitter maybe dying but definitely looking less appealing and Deviantart being bent on turning its users into feed for AI generators, I think I should appreciate the good ol’ personal site model again and urge others to look into it so you can create without being at the whim of tech moguls or platforms that, inevitably, WILL do what advertisers want.
I know not everyone wants to or can shell out for hosting and domain names and so on, honestly the past couple years I almost let mine expire since I wasn’t using them enough and definitely wasn’t making the cost back. You can get free blogs here and there, WordPress hosted sites aren’t bad, can’t really recommend Weebly too much since I had to use them for a class project years ago and when they got bought out by Square I got about daily emails to update my site to the new owners’ standard, then once it was transferred over they started nagging me nearly daily because I didn’t put anything monetizable into it.
This has been one of my more aimless rambles lately, and it’s basically just a more long winded version of stuff I’ve already said on social media and discord. But if you’re one of the very few who gets your 3/2 news from this site, ‘ey. You’re one of the real ones.
btw don’t be shy about leaving comments because i’m legitimately not sure if i broke or disabled them back when i had to purge like 20,000 suspicious auto generated messages and users a couple years back kthx
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