Switching Up Platforms
May. 2nd, 2023 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
corpsebrigadierI'm thinking of moving more of my Internet use to Dreamwidth if I can swing it, although like many resolutions, I have little clue if it will stick.
I quit twitter (and used it as an excuse to quit reddit, drop a bunch of old accounts, and take Facebook use down to an absolute minimum) during the Musk takeover, and while I still greatly enjoy tumbling, a lot of my casual Internet socializing has moved to discord, where I'm increasingly realizing that I'm getting burned out on some of the less-than-pleasant people in my online social groups. Not everyone in any social group clicks, I know, but small chat-based Internet venues unfortunately don't always have a corner of a room where you can chill with the lovely people you enjoy while politely acknowledging and then avoiding those you find sort of grating.
I'm still a little socially out of the loop post-pandemic. I've dropped off of regular visits with a lot of irl friends, the sense of community at my university largely dried up (and I'm leaving it and academia anyway, I hope... non-acc job hunt is not yet in full swing but is gearing up), and while I still have numerous penpals and remain close to my family and call them weekly, I don't have the ability to do a lot of socializing in real time with people in my general age cohort. I'm not so much starved for attention (I have a very cool partner and a few close online friends I very much do cherish when I get to talk to them one on one), but I feel I don't have a lot of places to comfortable process things, and I think shifting to doing a little of what amounts to journaling semi-publically might help (I already journal, but it's a journal that hopefully won't be read until future archivists read through and realize how vindicated I am in all of my complaints).
So here goes (and maybe this will prove an impetus to enjoy the fun of DW exchanges again, given how I've fallen out of the groove of writing quite as much fic after spending so much time writing a dissertation). Hoping--once again--I can hang out here a little more and write longer form and less ephemeral stuff online.
I quit twitter (and used it as an excuse to quit reddit, drop a bunch of old accounts, and take Facebook use down to an absolute minimum) during the Musk takeover, and while I still greatly enjoy tumbling, a lot of my casual Internet socializing has moved to discord, where I'm increasingly realizing that I'm getting burned out on some of the less-than-pleasant people in my online social groups. Not everyone in any social group clicks, I know, but small chat-based Internet venues unfortunately don't always have a corner of a room where you can chill with the lovely people you enjoy while politely acknowledging and then avoiding those you find sort of grating.
I'm still a little socially out of the loop post-pandemic. I've dropped off of regular visits with a lot of irl friends, the sense of community at my university largely dried up (and I'm leaving it and academia anyway, I hope... non-acc job hunt is not yet in full swing but is gearing up), and while I still have numerous penpals and remain close to my family and call them weekly, I don't have the ability to do a lot of socializing in real time with people in my general age cohort. I'm not so much starved for attention (I have a very cool partner and a few close online friends I very much do cherish when I get to talk to them one on one), but I feel I don't have a lot of places to comfortable process things, and I think shifting to doing a little of what amounts to journaling semi-publically might help (I already journal, but it's a journal that hopefully won't be read until future archivists read through and realize how vindicated I am in all of my complaints).
So here goes (and maybe this will prove an impetus to enjoy the fun of DW exchanges again, given how I've fallen out of the groove of writing quite as much fic after spending so much time writing a dissertation). Hoping--once again--I can hang out here a little more and write longer form and less ephemeral stuff online.
