After skimming the post on someone’s been missing on the internet, I thought…
First, who cares? Well, of course someone cares, I just have no idea who the author is (as always), and haven’t read their blog to miss them being around.
But their writing resonated with me, as they think the billionaire freaks reading them through their LLMs crawlers are the only readers of their apparently popular blog. Or, perhaps, they’re bothered by the LLMs reading them being more harm, than giving anything to those pesky readers being positive to everyone’s involved.
I tried to wear all that on myself, and thought I’m the opposite of that. I write for myself, I do appreciate the illusion of someone reading me that provides me the so-much-needed observer effect. And that’s it. I don’t care about the crawlers reading me. I think I’d try to actually block them, because why not? But I won’t go an extra mile to do that, because at this point I’m not bothered by them. I’m still making an attempt to share my experience and some aspects of my professional journey and/or hobbies, just because both the future me and someone else might find it useful.
Honestly, I’m even surprised they care about the slop machine more, as if they think nobody real reads them.
The internet folks make it appear the Rachel’s blog is popular, which I believe to be truth. But the author’s convinced that them bots what rather reads them. Giving up to the dead Internet theory.
I don’t know, perhaps I’m so much less on the Internet lately, or I just haven’t been thinking of all that properly yet, but I see that as a rather conspiracy theory than truth. Or maybe the Internet was just all broken dead space for many years before that, so I’m not seeing any difference now. People post mostly stupid pathetic miserable shit to their socials, so Meta et al funnels most of that into their slop analysing machine that feeds the idiots back with even more slap, and apparently everyone’s involved is just too happy about the outcome. Then, there are some news sites, and apart from some decent local news publishers—
We have them mostly good here in Ukraine. Which cannot be said about the long-established outlets as most of the western world media, including BBC and their shitty idiot-appealing so-called ‘standards’ lol, they themselves manipulating, with everyone (really? I hope it’s not) believing them these standards are some kind of dogma you cannot argue with.
So, apart from some decent local news publishers, most other news publishers, they’re rather attention farming things. Which was the case since forever, was it not?
Now, since we have everyone on the Internet, it feels like the Internet is broken, but if we talk broken, that’s the society that is broken. If not the global one, haven’t done any massive research, obviously, some societies are certainly broken.
The American one is the first to mention, I guess. Half the country (isn’t it?) voting got an obvious loser, who happens to be a convinced felon, and a pedophile… yeah, you have to be a pretty garbage human being to be on the Trump voters side.
But people in general are easily manipulated, and so instead of the Sun the newspaper, apparently there are Tik Tok videos with talking cats and dogs now.
I was never ‘around’ I realised, as I have never had any community built around me. Just had some random followers, lots of them at some point, but I was never even posting consistently about any topic but just myself.
But I was never around for someone, some group of them someones. Online or offline.
So, I’m just writing because I like funnelling some thoughts of mine into writing. Would be a waste to have it all to myself only.
Or worse, never written at all.