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Macroblog im Fediverse und die Herausforderungen durch die Community als eigenständig wahrgenommen zu werden. Ein interessanter Einblick.

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Musing about media (also of the social kind)

Well then.

I'm back here, many, many years after I initially left to pursue greener pastures. Ironically a few years later tumblr itself became one, but I digress. I've decided to try to keep a (at least) monthly blog to force myself to write a little more. I don't have a plan, or really any idea about what I want to write about yet, but many things in life are little like being a forgetful skydiving tailor; jumping first, and then having to build the parachute on the way down.

So firstly I wanted to expand on something I wrote about a week back on Twitter. The new frontiers in social media. It seems like the 2010s are coming to a close, with many of the foundations of that decade suffering some shakedowns and shuffles.

The new 10's were a strange decade, and obviously we're not really far removed enough to say what did and didn't make the decade what it was, but I have a few pointers. I'd say there's at least one notable characterization: the celebration of corporatization.

Fittingly for tumblr, I'd say the decade really got its flame from the geek culture early on in the decade on this very platform. From my formative years here, I pretty strongly remember the fandoms, and especially the mixed media fandoms like "superwholock". Obviously big balls of nonsense fangirling isn't exactly anything new but the thing I remember distinctly is mainly how different the approach to media appreciation was, it was little less "hey I like this and I was inspired by it to do my own thing" and more just "I FUCKING LOVE BEING A FAN OF INSERT THING HERE BOY I WILL CONSTRUCT MY ENTIRE PERSONA AROUND BEING A FAN". A little self-indulgent, to be blunt.

You can probably pretty easily draw a feeble and tortured mental line from that to the later big IP fests later on, where big companies would just grab metaphorical action figures out of their massive vaultlike toy chests and mash them together, for massive profits!

So uh, what the fuck am I on about and how does this relate to social media? Well, I think the early tumblr years ended up colouring the internet far more than you'd expect. After most of the users jumped over to the bigger sandboxes like Twitter later in the decade, I think the internet in general started to transform a little, away from the small communities of fun people to users just living in their comfort zone.

I'm a little worried about the future of the internet, but also hopeful. I think the one big thing of the 2010s we should leave behind is living in some nebulous cloud of likeminded stuff masquerading as a community and instead learn to appreciate the smaller groups of people around you, for what they are. It's what I truly hope to see out of the new frontiers.

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Natalie and Joe, @nattycontreraartistry and @joemaccreative I cannot believe I never posted about my first photoshoot, now shot years ago. It's been in my drafts all this time.

Check out my new/old blog post on my site!

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I Had A Point Once, But Hear Me Out Anyway

It’s exciting to be back in a writing mind. I’m eager to get my thoughts out, and I look forward to the dialogue my posts may open up. B

New post on my site, check it out and lemme know what you think.

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Why I’ve Been MIA

2018 was my weakest writing year to date. I maybe published three posts, and they weren’t strong pieces either. It was honestly one of my

I haven’t been on my regular blog all of last year for the most part. I’m pushing myself back into writing and my friend Mateo’s birthday sparked the drive. Check it out and tell me what you think. More to come very soon.

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I’m Done With PFCU

“It’s good to be back!” That is what I would say if I were writing the post I originally planned for today. But if this situation I am writing about instead was the flame to get m…

Finally back on the Macroblog, under unfortunate circumstances, but hey it’s not about the journey, right? Screw PFCU, they stole my money today, and I’m telling the Internet, because I’m infuriated. Check it out, give me comments, be more awesome than PFCU today, ciao!

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New post on the macroblog. I haven't written much serious stuff on here, but I've been pushed to share my perspective on racial...stuff as a lighty. I never thought my experience was all that relatable. But I'm going to make it a series of posts and see how it goes. You're super cool if you check it out. Thanks!

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I may not finish it today, but I am writing a new post right now. I'd love it if you checked out what's up there now in the meantime.