Year in Dreamwidth

[claudeb]

As of this Saturday, I'll have been on Dreamwidth for a year.

You wouldn't know it from my schedule here, or the tone of my recent posts, but I love this place and hope it endures. Which is by no means a given, between things like the recent sale of the .org TLD (please help save it if you can) and the even bigger threat of Article 13 (did you forget about it? EU lawmakers haven't). The power of corporate lobbying reaches far these days. That silencing the masses also happens to suit increasingly authoritarian governments everywhere is just the icing on the cake. With efforts to decentralize the internet again far from ready, things are about to get rough.

But enough politics. I was hoping to avoid it here. For now, dangers to social media are more immediate. The other shoe has dropped for Smack Jeeves, whose redesign broke the site and scattered the community. While the dust settles on that fiasco, and it will take some time, Tumblr is one social network still plodding along just fine. Well, at least until the new owner actually takes over and discovers what mess they got for their money. That 80% of users are still there (if the list of people I follow is any indication) may not mean so much. Those who left still number in the millions, and will pull others after them.

Suffice to say, in recent months I've posted more original content here, not even counting the various groups I'm in.

It's probably time to take down the little sticky post that started this blog and make myself comfortable. For as long as it lasts, anyway. My expectations are low in this day and age when everything is slipping away like in a bad dream.

Not looking forward to 2020. How about you?

Update: as of 1 May 2020, the .org domain is saved. Guess that makes the year not a total disaster.

Comments

[fred_mouse]

2020 has to be better.

Congrats on a year on Dreamwidth!

[claudeb]

Thank you! It's good to know I'm not shouting into a void. But I keep hearing the same song for years now, and instead every passing year has been worse, with no reason to believe things will start turning around. On the contrary.

[fred_mouse]

Ah. I was less telling you than answering your question in the last line -- for me, 2020 *has* to be better. I'm doing some prep work to get rid of some issues in my life, I've muted a stack of people on Facebook, and my work situation might be sorting itself out so that I have a line manager who actually manages (instead of the one who was all 'measurable goals? who needs that?')

And if it isn't? I have a list of things to try.

[claudeb]

Good luck then!

[fred_mouse]

Thank you!

[cmcmck]

Thanks for subscribing.

My blog is partly f-locked apart from my photo posts (I'm a photographer) but I've opened up for you to see what there is- I don't filter, so what you see IS what there is! :o)

[claudeb]

I subscribed for the photos, yes. :) But thank you for the trust.