O, it me...

#rambling…

Feels like the internet is again becoming a place where creators are front and center, but differently…

Unlike before, where the front-and-center-ness had to do with the lack of any coherent structure, this time around it feels more like it has to do with all the institutional structure getting so crowded. As in, platforms can’t really disambiguate from one another except for the people who drive their content. I suspect most content developers don’t have the patience to crosspost to span multiple platforms… after all, repackaging to fit the needs of each platform gets more and more tiresome the more fractured the universes become.

The problem I generally have with generating for Internet these days is that I don’t find much pleasure in feeding platforms. I also don’t really feel any reciprocity of value… I guess it feels like when I feed platforms my content, I am building in an appetite for an audience to go BACK to the platform, not to like, engage directly with me?

But like, who is the “ME” behind all of this? I mean, not like the real version of me, but the online persona of me… even that feels clouded by platform-centric thinking. Maybe this is why I’m blogging today, to set a flag back on my internet property… a “ALBERT WAS HERE” scratching into the wall of some semi-public digital space to prove to myself that this version of me isn’t not here…