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Deep thoughts about invisibility.
Sep. 22nd, 2021 05:21 am(Disclaimer: "deep" may be an exaggeration.)
By "invisibility", I mean that there's pretty much no place where my personal writings will be guaranteed to get seen. Nobody reads my dA journals/status updates anymore (this was a problem before Eclipse), it's a total crapshoot if my text-only, non-reply tweets get even one like, and I was howling into hyperspace on tumblr long before I left.
And the hideous irony of saying all this on Dreamwidth is that no one's likely to see this unless I go out of my way to shove it at them. That surge of activity following tumblr's botched porn purge? Sputtered out; the would-be migrants apparently got bored after a year, because activity on DW is inherently slower than tumblr or twitter, and pissed off.
(There's another concern for the hypothetical retaking of the Internet from corporations: will The Damn Kids[TM] have enough patience to stick with it?)
At least there's Discord, I guess, but it has the same problem as IRC: if you aren't in the server, you ain't seeing shit. Pillowfort's there too, but my blog is mostly reserved for art and I don't think my rare text posts got much attention.
I'unno, man; I'd just like a place where I can be reasonably certain that people will read my personal writings without having to constantly struggle against algorithms that are so user-hostile that even using tags that aren't trending will get you buried.
By "invisibility", I mean that there's pretty much no place where my personal writings will be guaranteed to get seen. Nobody reads my dA journals/status updates anymore (this was a problem before Eclipse), it's a total crapshoot if my text-only, non-reply tweets get even one like, and I was howling into hyperspace on tumblr long before I left.
And the hideous irony of saying all this on Dreamwidth is that no one's likely to see this unless I go out of my way to shove it at them. That surge of activity following tumblr's botched porn purge? Sputtered out; the would-be migrants apparently got bored after a year, because activity on DW is inherently slower than tumblr or twitter, and pissed off.
(There's another concern for the hypothetical retaking of the Internet from corporations: will The Damn Kids[TM] have enough patience to stick with it?)
At least there's Discord, I guess, but it has the same problem as IRC: if you aren't in the server, you ain't seeing shit. Pillowfort's there too, but my blog is mostly reserved for art and I don't think my rare text posts got much attention.
I'unno, man; I'd just like a place where I can be reasonably certain that people will read my personal writings without having to constantly struggle against algorithms that are so user-hostile that even using tags that aren't trending will get you buried.
