Do scoundrels really exist or do they only exist to people they've outsmarted? |
This is my WWW repository. It used to be my blogging platform but you can read this to understand why I changed things up and what it means for any content that you might find here today.
I'm not making posts to commercial social media though granted I haven't left social media. I'm using it in a more gratifying and specific way that balances with my conviction for independent web publishing.
I view commercial social media outlets like X, Facebook, etc. as "engagement amusement", which is how I think the all the social media companies actually view themselves as now.
Fewer people are actually generating trivial content to those places or really anywhere. If you follow a bunch of friends on a given platform you'll notice all but the most social media "enthusiastic" actually ever post updates. I put myself in that category before I acquiesced to this compulsion for staying the captain of my own ship.
What people are doing on commercial social media platforms today is responding to the posts and comments of "active others", news and press agencies, celebrities, politicians, brands, etc. Exactly things which I find myself doing with value.
ThemeThe theme of this place Explaining Myself is just that. I have forever been a non-affiliating and happily self-isolating personality that people find relating to oddly difficult, even to the point of avoiding. Here and online in general, speaking to the world at large versus interpersonally, is my way of closing that gap.
As I've said, I don't make posts to social media platforms - I make those here. But if you want to DM me on any of those platforms or want to enjoy my blabbity-blabs in response to the content of others, here are the links as well as to other follow solutions: