I’ve been spending a lot of my free time lately on Reddit. Probably too much time if I’m being honest. It’s my go-to time killer when I’ve got downtime at work, or home.
Like a lot of people (I think), I’m getting tired of the endless doom scrolling that Facebook and Instagram offer, with their curated algorithms, which I’m convinced are designed to piss me off. It makes me miss the old web 1.0 and web 2.0 days, where it felt like I had an endless amount of websites to visit, even if they were someone’s personal blog, with whom I had no connection. Just a place to exist, and read, and learn about things from first hand accounts. Whether it was someone’s passion project on a geocities/angelfire site, or was just their day-to-day blog, it was light and encouraging.
While I do get a lot of information from Reddit, it’s often interspersed with karma farming, people looking to make a quick joke, or trolls.
So with that said, I’ve decided to start a blog. I’m just going to talk about the goings on in my life, my hobbies, my dog, things I find interesting, and hopefully inspire someone else to do the same, and slowly, we might just be able to take back the internet.
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