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what's the point?

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i said ages ago that i was really inspired by the talks and work and writing of lu wilson, formerly fellow blogger and many other things, and now the other things stand alone!

i am working on a short time frame through my own delusions of grandeur, otherwise i would find other people who have stepped away from the dim lights of blogging for artistic, LLM-related or other valid reasons. feel free to tell me about them!

i get that blogging is seen as a dying art form: hard, nay, impossible to monetise; hard, no, actually, impossible to get anyone to look at your bloody posts; and hard, well, just really hard to justify right now save for just really liking being on your computer and talking to all the little queer people in it?

this is for many reasons, obviously chief amongst them LLMs hoovering up all the text posts and shovelling them into their greedy maws AND also regurgitating said posts up when it suits them to reconstitute into Smart Answers... corporate social media extracting all the goodness out of what everyone WOULD have been posting on their blogs if they didn't exist and incentivising people to post on zuckerberg's internet so they don't lose their tenuous relevance they rely on to be able to eat and continue feeding their children and landlord....

so what's the point of all this? why post at all? why care about the open web when the hounds of capitalism bang harder on the door every day? i can give you my reasoning and i'd love to hear yours if you are a blogger. call it "what's the point" or do an "re: what's the point?" and i'll link it below as a reply.

MY reasoning is that my face and likeness are being stolen from zuckerberg's internet and YouTube every time i post there, i am having my posts scraped from the majority of the text based posting platforms i use too i assume, and if i'm going to have my words stolen i want them to be stolen in their prime. i am a TEXT-BASED yapper and as much as i will make YouTube work eventually, so help me god, i am made for blogging primarily and it will be my first and last love when whatever replaces browsers and wifi comes up next.

i also think it's worth fighting for, but that is a distantly eclipsed second, my love for the form burns brighter than any other reason i could give you.

anyway. tell me your reasons. feel free to reply on bluesky to this post if you don't blog, and tell me why you haven't retreated from the internet in general.

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