Here I Come Again
As a teenager, I was pressured by my friends to create a Facebook account. That account lived for some years before I left.
Seeing a classmate browsing on Tumblr, I felt compelled to follow their steps. It’s the oldest account I still keep alive.
Because everyone seemed to be there, I joined Instagram. But its visual appeal never clicked with me, and instead of feeling alive, I withered, so I made the important decision to leave it and, by extension, its doomscrolling routine behind. I feel like I can breathe now and have even more time for my stuff.
I was also on Twitter while it was Twitter until it stopped being Twitter. It was, so far, the only platform in which I felt capable of unleashing my unfiltered and raw thoughts, and that’s why I mourned it when it died.
I’m on BlueSky, and I thought I would feel something similar to Twitter, but I don’t. I have to actively push myself toward posting something there, which I don’t like.
I created a Substack, a Medium, a Patreon, and some other accounts on some other platforms I can’t remember the names of, (un?)fortunately.
From a writing perspective, I felt more comfortable on Substack, which was nice. I was all up to stay here. Until some news fell on my lap.
I dislike news, controversy, gossip, and all of that kinds of stuff. It hits my mental sensitivity and stops my physical functionality, so receiving the least amount of it is good for my mental health.
It was not good for my mental health to discover that the founders and the team of the platform I was feeling the most comfortable in during the chaos worldwide were not… for the users. To put it kindly because I have no intention to take this deeper.
It’s true that the Substack Community I have found so far has been the loveliest, but when I start feeling discomfort with something I don’t need, it’s just healthier for me to leave it.
I left Medium. I was about to leave Patreon, but I decided to reformat it (again). I left almost all social media I could.
I’m leaving Substack too. I would have left today if I hadn’t felt the ‘need’ to let whoever’s reading me know.
I’m moving to ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear. If I keep blogging and rambling about stuff, I will do so there.
If I keep sharing my game playthroughs, my game stories, and my writings, I will do so on itch.io.
Updates will be on BlueSky, and my Discord server, but I haven’t opened the latter to the public again yet.
That’s all I think I’m able to handle right now.
We all need to focus on what does us good. Let’s try to spread it to others, too.