intro to antisocial feed

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i’ve been made aware of a thing called rss club and i am interested in it. not just because i’m a feed junky, but because i’m nostalgic (even whimsical) for the web as i experienced it as a kid.

so, i’m calling this antisocial feed not to be antisocial towards you, reader. and not to be reactively anti–social media.¹

i’m calling it antisocial feed because of me: if you knew me, before we hit 201x, you’d know that i used to be social: i used to have curiousity, attention, and so on. i used to (think i had been) thoughtful about my (multitude of) interactions with strangers online.

i participated in forums: about video games, japanese rock music. i wrote collaborative poems with my friend staxu. these are not things i feel up to doing anymore, probably because i feel anxious about them: it’s vulnerable, or unprofessional, or exposing; i worry that i’d be misunderstood.

are there like-minded people out there? willing to communicate with me, even in passing? sometimes other people seem inaccessible to me. sometimes i am worried that the only people left are trolls or deluded alpha-male wannabes.

sorry – what an intro. i haven’t really made it clear what antisocial feed is going to be. for now, expect posts about the following topics:

• how to (and how not to) communicate with others.
• a ruby on rails-based personal journal platform i’m building: maeku.
• irc, gopher, and free software in 2019. <3
• movies that are okay. (i’m yet another rss club person on letterboxd – nice!)
• why i’m not writing poetry for a living, even though that’s what i went to school for.

postscript

yeah, thanks for reading this far. i’m writing this on a static site generated by jekyll, and there’s no html view for this yet. it’s also separate from my main feed. more about this later.