i've seen mentions of a "bear blog" two or so times in the past few days, which prompted me to go have a looksie. i like blogging. and bears are very cute! put those two together, and you get quite the silly image in your head!! part of the reason why it got my interest was mostly because of the funny name. bear blog... haha :)
for reference: the bears are blogging here
as someone who is in love with the minimalism of smol.pub's user interface, i found that bear blog is almost similar in interface, save for a few key differences...
it's tagging system honestly might make my life way easier, as i tag and index things individually on here... i haven't decided if this system i have is effective, but i found that it's. at least working so far?? and i'm happy with it, like with the rest of how i've arranged my garden and given it so much thought.
at this point in my blogging journey, i wouldn't trade my satisfaction for convenience. even if it means working a little harder to figure out where everything goes... having to link each post under a tag... looking at how my own corner on here grows with time. i find satisfaction with the process of just getting my voice out, not minding who or who doesn't read it. speaking of which...
this one puts me off the most. the presence of "likes" or any equivalent of it in other platforms makes me feel... a little more conscious of what i have to say suddenly. sure, i'm still conscious of what i have to say on here SOMETIMES (oftentimes i feel like i post too often and get a bit shy about it). but i know that when i write here, i write for me. i write to plant seeds in my garden, and i write so i can look at it one day and come back to all the fascinations i've had over time...
it's easy to say not to care about the "likes", but having it looming in the background i feel like still rewires your brain, even just a bit. maybe that's the tinfoil hat man in me speaking. blogging then becomes partly a means of impressing peopleβit's scary.
to me, at least!
as i scroll through the discovery feed, i find that with each article, there are some slight variations of how they're customized. and i love it!! much as i do, though, it also complicates things for me way too much... i know i'd get invested in making my own blog too pretty and neat, and then forgetting to actually say things.
did you know that when i tried to set up my smol.pub, i spent 2 hours trying to look for the perfect background only to realize everything i liked made the text a little hard to read?
in the end, i just groaned and settled on a solid color.
with more freedom, i bet it would have taken me way longer to set up anything that i'd get too worked up over it haha... but believe me, i love customization!!
the activity is definitely more bustling over at the bear site. that means there's always something new. i feel as though i'd be pleasantly entertained seeing the lives of so many people. but i get the same enjoyment as i do here anyway, and i like the stillness here sometimes!
there is definitely more to bear blog. it feels like a fun platform, but i'll just lurk on there occasionally i guess? no account, no new blog to move to. again, i like it here anyway. i find that there is no reason for me to uproot my garden and plant it elsewhere... i guess it would be easy for me to do it NOW than any other time, since i don't have much on it... aaah, but still...
if i had discovered that first, maybe things would be a little different. but it still fascinates meβlike how any little bubble communities of the small internet does.
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