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*blows dust off*
Been a spell.
Been a rough year and some.
Things largely the same as last update. I've been very good at keeping my head just above water, anyway, if leas adept at making progress in any other kind of direction (shore, for instance, remains a mystery)
Precious has been a balm. She's doing well, as far as I am aware, as far as her vet has seen. Probably should have her bloodwork done again, but vet didn't rec and didn't occur to me to ask really, just updated her shots and had her get a more general physical. (Shes chonky but not obese, just eating well.)
New cat, Molly, and she haven't met yet, cept through the gate. I need to make that introduction soon now that both have been cleared for heatlh stuff.
I miss mum still. Miss dad.
Feel guilty sometimes though because I miss the closeness I used to have with my online cadre just as much (which, incidentally, is how I ended up on a nostalgia trip that led me back here. On my phone or I'd probably have logged into my lj proper hah)
I am certainly a Grumpy Old in my approach to social medias these days, but a lot of it's to do with the losses. Erosions of old gathering places, with these temporary things in their place, and where conversations and genuine connections once held, its been supplanted by reacts and this kind of desperate struggle for engagement that doesn't end up very engaged at all.
A thousand voices screaming into their personal pocket voids, vying to connect with eachother, all on vain if the algorithm doesn't think your literal actual friends will find you as interesting as an ad placement or what's presently trending.
And to make it worse, the platforms, the mass of them, their setup is more ephemeral than ever;
we see this with repeated tech support answers for things, apps which only have communities on say, discord/facebook/twitter.
Possibly the absolutely worst place for tech support on a platform and yet. There's almost no way to archive it, and 3 years,5 years someones going to be searching for answers and its going to be a blank dead whole in the web. This is happening already, and even IA can't solve it when the datas kept in these walled gardens to begin with.
Whereas looking for older issues, hits come up across blogs, forums, steam communities, etc.
Even Tumblr.
Though that's becoming more rare as Tumblr even is beginning to force logins just to see the site.
I've gone wildly off into the weeds here, but I miss the old communities we used to build, and it isn't too late to revive the practice. It doesn't have to be screaming into the void of 4 or 5 or however many walled garden websites.
I'm guilty of discord usage too, I realize this of course. I miss aim, could probably set up an irc thing but its hard enough getting folks to use discord.
But these walled gardens, man, this illusion of communication. Its a sickness.
Been a rough year and some.
Things largely the same as last update. I've been very good at keeping my head just above water, anyway, if leas adept at making progress in any other kind of direction (shore, for instance, remains a mystery)
Precious has been a balm. She's doing well, as far as I am aware, as far as her vet has seen. Probably should have her bloodwork done again, but vet didn't rec and didn't occur to me to ask really, just updated her shots and had her get a more general physical. (Shes chonky but not obese, just eating well.)
New cat, Molly, and she haven't met yet, cept through the gate. I need to make that introduction soon now that both have been cleared for heatlh stuff.
I miss mum still. Miss dad.
Feel guilty sometimes though because I miss the closeness I used to have with my online cadre just as much (which, incidentally, is how I ended up on a nostalgia trip that led me back here. On my phone or I'd probably have logged into my lj proper hah)
I am certainly a Grumpy Old in my approach to social medias these days, but a lot of it's to do with the losses. Erosions of old gathering places, with these temporary things in their place, and where conversations and genuine connections once held, its been supplanted by reacts and this kind of desperate struggle for engagement that doesn't end up very engaged at all.
A thousand voices screaming into their personal pocket voids, vying to connect with eachother, all on vain if the algorithm doesn't think your literal actual friends will find you as interesting as an ad placement or what's presently trending.
And to make it worse, the platforms, the mass of them, their setup is more ephemeral than ever;
we see this with repeated tech support answers for things, apps which only have communities on say, discord/facebook/twitter.
Possibly the absolutely worst place for tech support on a platform and yet. There's almost no way to archive it, and 3 years,5 years someones going to be searching for answers and its going to be a blank dead whole in the web. This is happening already, and even IA can't solve it when the datas kept in these walled gardens to begin with.
Whereas looking for older issues, hits come up across blogs, forums, steam communities, etc.
Even Tumblr.
Though that's becoming more rare as Tumblr even is beginning to force logins just to see the site.
I've gone wildly off into the weeds here, but I miss the old communities we used to build, and it isn't too late to revive the practice. It doesn't have to be screaming into the void of 4 or 5 or however many walled garden websites.
I'm guilty of discord usage too, I realize this of course. I miss aim, could probably set up an irc thing but its hard enough getting folks to use discord.
But these walled gardens, man, this illusion of communication. Its a sickness.