Explaining Myself.

David (Earl) Pinero's Web Place

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 use this repository in tandem with my BlueSky account. On BlueSky I post spuriously and impulsively as one would on any microblogging platform (so feel free to follow that), but cite links back to this website when I produce digital exhibits that are best showcased on one.

The battle to settle a commercial social media platform to work in some kind of tandem with my website here has been an epic one. BlueSky is the closest thing to Twitter that has some form of open ethos and is developed at the outset with user control of their data in mind.

Threads was a close contender because it is "open" too, using the fediverse. But what I initially took as a benefit, the fact that Meta has multiple channels where one can cross post between them (Facebook, Insta, and Threads itself), actually left me feeling diffused in practice. Every missive I had became a choice to include on Facebook or Instagram, or, the other way around (this is probably good product feedback for them). For a tandem platform, I want simplicity as much as openness. BlueSky achieves this accidentally by being too new to be otherwise.

If all of this explanation strikes you as insufferably self-important of me, why, I agree that it is. Just deal. I'm trying to live a digital publishing model of the free and open web so that others might reflect over and do the same for themselves. You as a normie may not get it at first.

While you can keep up with me using the Meta channels I've mentioned above you can also just stick with this "repository bloggish" site. If so:

• Read the active entries as a blog
• Review my accumulated announcements and passing thoughts
• Explore archived content
• You can subscribe to its RSS feed
• And, you can send me a message directly using the form.

The theme of this repository 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.