Neither Platform Nor Feed

The way I have settled into reading [your] blogs is to
-lack brain stimulation for more than one second
-not want to confront my own terrifying thoughts
-withdraw phone from pocket
-open regular Safari browser
-select “blgs” (sic) from Bookmarks
-visit every blog in that list

It is nice.

I am off of text-based platforms like the former bird site. Visiting news sites (a common default in the past) is not pleasant. I dunno, I am out of other websites to visit by default.

So I visit your blogs. In a browser.

A couple years ago I started using Feedly. It was okay, and obviously the automatic appearance of Content™️ was nice. But it stripped away the look and feel of everyone’s blog. If you are like me, you might just have something simple or whatever by default as the look of your blog. Others of you are surely particular about the way you want it to look. I want to appreciate that aspect of your blog, so I visit it in a browser. Sometimes on a laptop, of course. But on a phone it’s still great.

The other nice thing about the browser method is that I choose to click on your blog in the list. There is no automation. Only free will. This imparts intentionality.

Oh, I do visit some Mastodon users’ pages to see what they are posting.

The other nice thing is not knowing if you have updated. When I click, and you have, it is a nice little moment.

One thing I am a little surprised about is the low proportion of blogs that have comments. I guess my brain is forever stuck in the Blogger days when it was kind of a default feature. I don’t feel an insatiable need to comment, as much as to let you know I visited your blog. So here goes: I visited your blog. If you told me about it.