I first started this blog because I have missed having a place on the internet that I could call my own.
While it may not seem like it from the number of public posts, this place has been serving me quite well as a little oasis away from the noise of the rest of the internet. I often come here to sort through my thoughts and decide whether something I might want to say is actually worth saying. Most of the time, it’s not.
Still though, the cycle of draft/delete hits different here than if I were doing the same on the likes of Facebook or Twitter. There’s a sense of ownership and desire for quality that I just don’t feel while shouting into the void of social media, which is a bit strange, since more people are likely to pay attention to my posts there rather than here. But there isn’t mine. There has it’s own expected quality of content, and being another clown amongst the circus largely goes forgiven. I don’t want here to be just another iteration of there.
For a while now, there seems to be a growing discontent for the type of social media culture that has dominated our online lives for more than a decade. It just isn’t fun anymore. You know what it was for me that made Twitter great? It was not following celebrities and having headlines stuffed into my face every 30 seconds. It was the fact that I could simultaneously text all of my friends at once, like the world’s biggest group chat, just to say something like “poopy,” then giggle about it for the next hour. Things felt smaller, more personal, more silly. It felt like ours.
That’s the type of internet I’ve been longing to return to. I started with this blog, an experience for me. Now I want to rope my friends in. I want to build an experience for us.
Piggybacking on the drama and exodus from Twitter, and the subsequent skyrocketing in popularity of decentralized social media technology Mastodon, I created Super Rainbow Kitten Squad Social. I created this to be a Twitter of our own. A place where we can reject the current social media status-quo and re-make it back to something we can enjoy. What that looks like exactly, I don’t really know yet. I don’t even really know if there’s much interest for such things among my social circles. I feel like I have to try though.
Consider this an invitation. If you too, have been feeling fed up with the state of the internet today, come help reclaim it. Whether it’s through something like SRKS Social or something else, I want us to have our own space online again. Our own little oasis in the vast sea of the internet, where we can go to truly be amongst friends. Come join me.
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