Looking at shifting from Facebook, orienting efforts elsewhere…and picking this up again.
I’ve wanted to ditch FB for a while, now, but couldn’t pull the trigger on it.
With their recent fact-checking changes and refusals to address clearly-hijacked accounts of some friends, I’ve decided it was as good a time as any to move along.
Not checking the Feed every hour or so is a factor, too; it’s too easy to intend a brief check on something, then see an interesting update from another friend or get caught in a Reel or whatever…before long, it’s not such a quick check-in after all…
I want to be more purposeful about interacting with technology; I want to minimize doomscrolling or whatever the version of endlessly reviewing friends’ posts is.
So. I created a LinkStack to link all of my contact methods (mostly shown on this site, too). I’m picking this Hugo site back up again (…I hope). I’m being more deliberate in my technology usage and learning; more time expanding my skills, building tools and the like… Leveraging skills I’ve half-developed, sharing what I learn.
Here’s a diagram of what I have, to date showing various services that create content that’s pushed online (like on this blog) and/or hosted wholly at home.
I’ll dig more into the technical side in other posts. Suffice to say that my digital presence will change; I’ll be as present as ever, just in different venues. Hopefully doing more tech projects - and things like music, hydroponics, brewing… - with this site and other non-FB social networks sharing progress and lessons learned…