Another first post

2026-01-30

Hey, so I'm trying to blog again because I miss the personal diarying of social media but I really don't like the way folks talk on there, the way people react to you, the fact that there's a lot of topics I can't really discuss without it becoming Discourse Fodder.

This is going to sound kind of weird but I tend to get a modest following on any social media platform because I'm pithy and have a lot of experience as a writer but that always means that I can easily feel out of control over how many eyes are on my posts.

Both the fediverse and bsky can get really, really self-righteous and deliberately obtuse. Twitter is, well, nazi-land.

So I don't really know where I can just talk, y'know?

I used to use gopher and gemini for this task but I also frequently shot myself in the foot by making it deliberately harder for people close to me to easily keep up with my writing.

Maybe I can just change that by actually keeping up a blog again?