hey, Inquiry (it's me, TMO) - don't mean to pester ya at The Midnight, but W.a just started doing comments with Remark.as, and I thought you'd like to know :)
I'm thinking of going back to W.a from Ghost (in all likelihood, I will). And, I need to pop into M.p more often for late night coffee (been a while since I put anything here).
Hope you're good, friend.
> hey, Inquiry (it's me, TMO) - don't mean to pester ya > at The Midnight, but W.a just started doing comments > with Remark.as, and I thought you'd like to know :)
TMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I do appreciate the update.
I've had a bit of priorities shift, write.as drawing a shorter stick therein. My current plan/subscription goes about another week, and I'll be letting it fade into the ASCII abyss.
Actually, your timing is rather interesting, as I went on a bit of a "TMO hunt" a week or so ago, coming to the conclusion therein that you'd left write.as.
I mean, talk about some serious icing on a write.as departure cupcake! :-)
> I'm thinking of going back to W.a from Ghost (in > all likelihood, I will). And, I need to pop into > M.p more often for late night coffee (been a while > since I put anything here).
It's gone fairly quiet. Naturally, I assume that's my fault. :-)
> Hope you're good, friend.
Typical life ups and downs. Looking for another job after a fairly disastrous foray into teaching middle school kids math and compsci.
You?
::wishes I could do the quote stuff you can do::
I appreciate the good thoughts, and yea, both W.a *and* M.p have had upticks and downticks in terms of regular users/writers/patrons/etc., but things come and go. I still read R.w.a AND M.p AND Smol.pub every single day - there's always something SOMEWHERE! Haha.
I hope you find a new job and that the disastrous foray wasn't to...disaster-y.
Me? Blogging over on Ghost for now, but will likely be back on W.a in due time (kinda already *am* back there), and Ghost is nice and all, just "too much" happening there (in terms of the software - I don't see much of a community to speak of). olry.co is the URL (for now) if you wanna check it out.
Hope you're doing good, bud.
> ::wishes I could do the quote stuff you can do::
Um....... RTFM? ;-)
> I hope you find a new job and that the disastrous > foray wasn't to...disaster-y.
Oh... just a 50% pay cut to work 50 times harder to *not* accomplish what I've come to believe isn't humanly possible anyway....
> Me? Blogging over on Ghost for now, but will likely > be back on W.a in due time (kinda already *am* back > there), and Ghost is nice and all, just "too much" > happening there (in terms of the software - I don't > see much of a community to speak of). olry.co is > the URL (for now) if you wanna check it out.
Nice!
FWIW, I've come to see (online) "community" as mostly a myth. My theory of the moment on that is self-centered selves at best *maybe* wanna have a club of essentially clones of themselves. But the instant anyone else acts/speaks/writes in a way not in accord with such in a physical and/or conceptual space the club faithful consider their own, individuals thereof might try some sort of barking to scare off the evildoer, several/all might band together to bark and/or silence the evildoer away, etc.
So maybe "community" happens accidentally for a season from time to time, but soon enough collapses under the weight of its collective self-centered-ness?
I agree on the "online community myth" thing. No community has ever existed in history that hasn't been in the presence of others IRL, I think. And clones of like-minded people to either backup the original person's words or otherwise be seen as "non-conforming" to the narrative that is being presented - that is almost like "Online Communicae 101". What's worse is when it is taken to an extreme example and someone will fall all over themselves to kiss the ring of, promise their first-born child to, a person/group of people on the WWW they find "neat". A stark contrast to finding like-minded people that you/I/anyone feel are on the "same level of"...status, so to speak.
It is what it is, though. I cannot make the world a better place (stopped trying years ago, actually), and I feel avoiding places where the ring-kissing/child-promisers frequent has made "not caring" much easier (namely sites like Twitter, and Mastodon, etc.). We are all who we are - no need to "be better" or (voluntarily) "be less" than anyone else. :)
Good to see ya, bud