So Fresh and So Clean
Apr. 17th, 2009 11:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yelosonStarting anew. It fits so much in my life right now. Letting go of a lot of stuff I've been holding onto. (Lesson, closing doors is important!) Part of it is asking myself who I really talk to, and, more importantly, who I want to listen to, and why.
My biggest frustration in blogging has been all about who I'm talking with. I tried doing a couple of separate blogs for gaming, but instead of becoming critical mass site for geeks of color, it just became swamped by typical gamer types. So really it's about the people I talk to more than the service itself, though LJ's last few years of "TOS when we want, not when you need it" hasn't done much for sustaining my trust.
Anyway, I think I'm going to talk more geek stuff on this go around, and maybe it'll hit the magic mixture I've been looking for. (If you know me from LJ and you've changed your username, let me know who you are.)
ETA: One thing I'm liking is that I can grant access to "friends only" entries without having to subscribe to everyone's posts. That's actually pretty awesome as I really don't have time to keep up with everyone, but I would like folks to still be able to talk w/o having to invite the whole damn world.
My biggest frustration in blogging has been all about who I'm talking with. I tried doing a couple of separate blogs for gaming, but instead of becoming critical mass site for geeks of color, it just became swamped by typical gamer types. So really it's about the people I talk to more than the service itself, though LJ's last few years of "TOS when we want, not when you need it" hasn't done much for sustaining my trust.
Anyway, I think I'm going to talk more geek stuff on this go around, and maybe it'll hit the magic mixture I've been looking for. (If you know me from LJ and you've changed your username, let me know who you are.)
ETA: One thing I'm liking is that I can grant access to "friends only" entries without having to subscribe to everyone's posts. That's actually pretty awesome as I really don't have time to keep up with everyone, but I would like folks to still be able to talk w/o having to invite the whole damn world.
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Date: 2009-04-18 01:47 pm (UTC)I very much have been semi-expecting my lj and attendant comms to 'poof' and disappear. Because I had been/do post pictures of us a lot a lot a lot. I also am happy every time I see deadbro hasn't been vanished, too.
I think it is the people and not the genre. I've found now that I'm much more selective about who has access to me, I still enjoy a diversity of opinions but with much better signal-to-noise ratio.
Closing doors is important. And then locking them behind me rather than keeping a hand on the knob and checking (occasionally) to see if that door still needs to be shut.
Usually, I find, yeah, that door could have been welded shut and I wouldn't've missed anything.