Back to blogging
21 March 2019 22:30![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
enkitaHello.
After a years long break from blogging I've suddenly been overcome with an urge to write something. Write my thoughts down about multiple things. Traditional blogging, I feel, has kind of become less popular as of late. Social media platforms and micro-blogs like Tumblr enable one to write down one's thoughts AND share them with a large audience. It is also possible to gain a lot of internet fame within specific fandoms this way. That's probably what people are after? Fandom fame and the possibility to interact with other fans.
Social platforms don't really suit me, as I'm kind of afraid of some of these social interactions. Especially if there's a lot of drama and fighting. I was an active Tumblr user for around... six years. Not that I really wrote down much aside of rambling in the tags, but what initially attracted me about the site were all the jokes and amazing fan-created material. That was back in 2012 and I had no idea about the political discourse that took and still takes place on Tumblr. I was young and got introduced to multiple political stances I didn't have the knowledge to question. You know what Tumblr is about. I was brainwashed into this Tumblr feminism a little bit which I admit is something that I've grown quite bitter about over the years. I am just happy that, after actually being taught political history in school, I was eventually able to think critically about all of these things I kept seeing on my dashboard. It was a year later and I had finally realised that a lot of the stuff that circulated around on that website were total bullshit. I remember some of those wake-up-moments. Like when someone unironically claimed that the original inhabitants of the Nordic countires were people of colour and the "white people" that nowadays inhabit the North came later and conquered those lands, killing and raping the natives. I wasn't sure if I should laugh because that's some of the dumbest shit I've heard, or cry because someone was actually this stupid.
So I tried to enjoy my Tumblr experience only indulging myself in the nice and funny fandom things. Until 2018 when I realised that it's impossible, I couldn't avoid the circulating politics-trash everywhere, or the toxic bullying culture the users of that site seem to embrace with glee, and finally gave up. December 2018 me was then laughing at Tumblr, shooting itself in the foot by banning NSFW material.
So I've never been very vocal on any social media sites, but before they became popular I liked making blog posts and discussing on forums. The latter are, unfortunately, pretty much a dead format at this point. I am a young person but I already feel hopelessly nostalgic for the internet of my childhood... Because I hate Tumblr and I hate Twitter and I hate Google, I've been trying out some alternative sites lately, for fun. They do have their own appeal I think, being so small and innocent. Having their own little communities. But now I started feeling like, I want to make some posts once again. Even if no one was ever to read them, I want to write. And I started looking for blogging platforms.
Pillowfort, how about that? The community seems okay enough. Oh no, that's only because the thing's still in beta. Not only can I not join it yet, I bet when it opens it's doors the Tumblr toxicity is going to sweep in. I read an interview of some of the Pillowfort creators on some online publication, where they said that they had grown to dislike Tumblr's toxic atmosphere. Here's hoping that they'll moderate their site to keep it clean of that.
Anyways, what about LiveJournal then? People used to use that quite a bit and it's a blogging site. Wait what, it's owned by the Russians now? ........... I think I'll pass.
Well how about Blogger? Not only do I, again, hate Google, but I also started fearing that they'll find a BS excuse to delete my Google account (I mean it's Google, they'd do that) and my blog would also be deleted.
Dreamwidth, I first heard about it last year. Dismissed it until this day. Arrived here now and, it's open source and doesn't delete the blogs even after long periods of inactivity? Sign me up. I hope that my blogging experience on this site will be pleasant, and that I won't get mobbed or kicked out for saying something mildly controversial.
I might sometimes write something in Finnish.
-- Enkita.
After a years long break from blogging I've suddenly been overcome with an urge to write something. Write my thoughts down about multiple things. Traditional blogging, I feel, has kind of become less popular as of late. Social media platforms and micro-blogs like Tumblr enable one to write down one's thoughts AND share them with a large audience. It is also possible to gain a lot of internet fame within specific fandoms this way. That's probably what people are after? Fandom fame and the possibility to interact with other fans.
Social platforms don't really suit me, as I'm kind of afraid of some of these social interactions. Especially if there's a lot of drama and fighting. I was an active Tumblr user for around... six years. Not that I really wrote down much aside of rambling in the tags, but what initially attracted me about the site were all the jokes and amazing fan-created material. That was back in 2012 and I had no idea about the political discourse that took and still takes place on Tumblr. I was young and got introduced to multiple political stances I didn't have the knowledge to question. You know what Tumblr is about. I was brainwashed into this Tumblr feminism a little bit which I admit is something that I've grown quite bitter about over the years. I am just happy that, after actually being taught political history in school, I was eventually able to think critically about all of these things I kept seeing on my dashboard. It was a year later and I had finally realised that a lot of the stuff that circulated around on that website were total bullshit. I remember some of those wake-up-moments. Like when someone unironically claimed that the original inhabitants of the Nordic countires were people of colour and the "white people" that nowadays inhabit the North came later and conquered those lands, killing and raping the natives. I wasn't sure if I should laugh because that's some of the dumbest shit I've heard, or cry because someone was actually this stupid.
So I tried to enjoy my Tumblr experience only indulging myself in the nice and funny fandom things. Until 2018 when I realised that it's impossible, I couldn't avoid the circulating politics-trash everywhere, or the toxic bullying culture the users of that site seem to embrace with glee, and finally gave up. December 2018 me was then laughing at Tumblr, shooting itself in the foot by banning NSFW material.
So I've never been very vocal on any social media sites, but before they became popular I liked making blog posts and discussing on forums. The latter are, unfortunately, pretty much a dead format at this point. I am a young person but I already feel hopelessly nostalgic for the internet of my childhood... Because I hate Tumblr and I hate Twitter and I hate Google, I've been trying out some alternative sites lately, for fun. They do have their own appeal I think, being so small and innocent. Having their own little communities. But now I started feeling like, I want to make some posts once again. Even if no one was ever to read them, I want to write. And I started looking for blogging platforms.
Pillowfort, how about that? The community seems okay enough. Oh no, that's only because the thing's still in beta. Not only can I not join it yet, I bet when it opens it's doors the Tumblr toxicity is going to sweep in. I read an interview of some of the Pillowfort creators on some online publication, where they said that they had grown to dislike Tumblr's toxic atmosphere. Here's hoping that they'll moderate their site to keep it clean of that.
Anyways, what about LiveJournal then? People used to use that quite a bit and it's a blogging site. Wait what, it's owned by the Russians now? ........... I think I'll pass.
Well how about Blogger? Not only do I, again, hate Google, but I also started fearing that they'll find a BS excuse to delete my Google account (I mean it's Google, they'd do that) and my blog would also be deleted.
Dreamwidth, I first heard about it last year. Dismissed it until this day. Arrived here now and, it's open source and doesn't delete the blogs even after long periods of inactivity? Sign me up. I hope that my blogging experience on this site will be pleasant, and that I won't get mobbed or kicked out for saying something mildly controversial.
I might sometimes write something in Finnish.
-- Enkita.
