Social media became a shitshow years ago. Facebook and Instagram got businesses hooked on free advertising, and it made a lot of sense for a while, getting visibility in the feeds of people who were actually interested in what we were posting about. But as the algorithm inexorably shifted to monetization (and “engagement” by making people angry all the time), it became clear that these (to say nothing of Twitter) are toxic platforms by design.
So we’re trying to break up with Zuckerberg. If you still find these spaces useful, we get it. No judgment. There are family members I still check on there, and friends who mainly communicate that way. We don’t want to cut off communication with you, either. Our plan is to post here on our own site, and repost to FB and Insta for a while yet. But the old-school way of actually going to a website to check on someone you’re interested in … we MISS that! So we’re going to try that.
If you are looking for back-and-forth engagement and comments and to-the-minute news updates, join our Discord! Message us to find out more. We will not be allowing comments here, because crypto scams are too good at targeting WordPress comments so they’ve become useless. Thanks for your interest!
We want to connect with you, but we’ve come to the conclusion that “social media” is built to be antisocial. So we’ve built our own feed here (or as they used to be called, “blog,” lol). We’ll try to post most days that we’re open. If you want to be part of the conversation, join our Discord!
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