Beyond Selidor

I ONLY use my Tumblr for fannish stuff, it's not personal at all -- there's also art and some book stuff and classical antiquities but I don't talk about IRL or politics -- but there's still so much politics in fandom, or fannish blogs reblogging all the "BE SURE TO VOTE!!!" stuff, and I also find Tumblr really hard to search and it's starting to get difficult to filter, like Twitter. I rarely use Facebook because I couldn't figure out how to get through all the promoted shit and the reposts of "funny" items and news stories to actual real people I knew and their updates. Twitter's like that and IG keeps fucking with the feed. I think the anxiety a lot of us are feeling is a deliberate strategy on the part of the social network designers, too -- the more engaged you are, the more you post and comment and increase their revenue. Nobody in that setup gets wealthier when we're scrolling through all contented and calm.