Explaining Myself.
Let Me Explain
07/08/2024
In June of 2024 I reengineered my entire WWW presence to reflect the reality that all my online expressions were taking place first and foremost on commercial social media platforms. To make online interaction worthwhile I conceded that I needed an active audience in order to fuel the spirit, and that the blog platform -- even one based on a CMS engine that I myself had developed -- wasn't providing me enough of the lulz.
The "blog it first" syndication model as it is sometimes known as became futile, inefficient, and redundant; whereas commercial social media platforms afforded everything I need to emote fast. Try as I might to resist reacting on Threads, Facebook, Reddit, and so on, before blogging, I could not. And when I failed to do so the energy of a reaction that I swore I would carry over to a longer more meaningful blog post later, evaporated before I could.
As a result my blog languished. And that felt somehow corrosive to my writing and production spirit. Not to mention that it fanned a betrayal of my passionate advocacy that people live more on the open web.
I still understand the criticality of one's own WWW place. But given the reality of my behavioral preferences, which is not unlike the untold millions of others, I see that my advocacy for an independent digital presence needs to process a different formulation.
And so, here we are. Everything I do online wherever I'm doing it is first, and this "blog", if we can still call it one (we can't, more on that in a moment), is now something like a second.
My WWW space is now a repository platform. Somewhere to place and reference things I have produced with focus and with exceptional significance that needs to live somewhere I control. Under this model I don't expect repeat visitors or a perpetual audience. I expect it more to be a showcase that I can link back to from social media as needed.
I think this is a better balance for me and a better use of the independent streak. Not just here at my personal blog repository but my other sites as well. I will export this philosophy making it part and parcel of my other blogs like BuffScan.
Blogging will still happen but only under exceptional circumstances. No more trying to beat a story or point out of a thin conviction. I don't know how frequently under this model my personal writing will ever appear here, but know now that when it does, it is over something borne of conviction and feeling.
Why, take this very entry as an example.
By Dave for Personal Blog.
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