Why here? Why now?

Mostly I’m hedging my bets against the collapse of social media. Social media always collapses and something simultaneously better and worse rises from the rubble.

I recently deleted Twitter from my devices because it was the only way I could cleanse my timeline of that one guy who is not amusing, entertaining, edifying or uplifting in any way. I open up Instagram about once a week—ever since they decided they really meant to be TikTok.

In the past I used to hang out on Flickr when it was a more lively place to share art and socialize with other art makers. I enjoyed Tumblr for a while till they got weird and decided they didn’t want people using their site and drove them off with sticks.

So anyway, with all this free time on my hands I decided to put up an artists site and think about next things while I try new things like Mastodon and whatever seems better than the rubble back there where all the good sites used to be.