Reflections on Blogging: Lessons Learned Since 2008

This blog is back to where it was around 2008. I actually lost the domain because I forgot about it and someone snatched it up and basically wouldn't let get until the SEO rankings dropped.

Needless to say, a lot has changed since I owned this URL back in the day. Blogging isn't so much of a thing as it used to be. I live in the UK now, I'm no longer the editor of the Transadvocate, and the world has fallen apart more than I thought it could back in the day. After using different social media platforms, I've decided to come back to this platform (personal hosted WordPress blog).

I mostly have returned to it, because social media has turned into something I can't stand. Everything is monetized, even Twitter and Facebook. You don't have much reach these days unless you're outrage farming on social media for someone else to profit off of. That's not who I am, and not what I want to do. Mostly what I want to do here is write from the perspective of the life I've lived.

I've got a lot of cleaning up to do just to get this to look how it did previously. I might have a professional do an upgrade at some point but right now I just want to get this back to what it was. I've recently moved from Twitter to Mastodon, and I plan on centralising everything I do online here.