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what am i doing
Thu, Nov. 9th, 2023 01:02 pmi guess my current way of procrastinating on doing any of the things i'm meant to be doing is trying to work out how this site works
i feel like the me of ten years ago would have found this a lot more intuitive than current me does because the modern internet has made me forget what it's like to have sites where you have to do the work yourself and they don't just shove information in your face
i'm trying not to see this as a tumblr substitute because if i do i'll never be happy with it because it's clearly Not That. but i am trying to build a community that will mean it's less of a blow if tumblr does go down, whether six months from now or in a year or in two years
i have been on that site for twelve years, i met a lot of my closest online friends there, i would not be who i am without it. it is by far the most bearable place on the internet for me and the one where i spend the most time. if it does go down, i will be devastated, and i don't use that term lightly in this case. the very idea of it is making me really, really sad, even though i am trying not to be hysterical and start mourning a site that is very much still kicking. i'll be there until the lights go off. i'm just... setting up some safety nets so that i have somewhere to go if/when they do
and i have always joked that tumblr is my Loud Diary which sometimes talks back to me when i post into the void. from what i've seen so far, that's one part of its job that dreamwidth seems suited to taking over. so. hello, loud diary. here i am. let me know if i'm doing this wrong.
i feel like the me of ten years ago would have found this a lot more intuitive than current me does because the modern internet has made me forget what it's like to have sites where you have to do the work yourself and they don't just shove information in your face
i'm trying not to see this as a tumblr substitute because if i do i'll never be happy with it because it's clearly Not That. but i am trying to build a community that will mean it's less of a blow if tumblr does go down, whether six months from now or in a year or in two years
i have been on that site for twelve years, i met a lot of my closest online friends there, i would not be who i am without it. it is by far the most bearable place on the internet for me and the one where i spend the most time. if it does go down, i will be devastated, and i don't use that term lightly in this case. the very idea of it is making me really, really sad, even though i am trying not to be hysterical and start mourning a site that is very much still kicking. i'll be there until the lights go off. i'm just... setting up some safety nets so that i have somewhere to go if/when they do
and i have always joked that tumblr is my Loud Diary which sometimes talks back to me when i post into the void. from what i've seen so far, that's one part of its job that dreamwidth seems suited to taking over. so. hello, loud diary. here i am. let me know if i'm doing this wrong.
