joining omg.lol and my first Mastodon toot
Ok, trying not to freak out here, but I bit the bullet on my first 'purchase' into the Small Web!
I am now a proud member of an omg.lol site, check out my profile page there:
I have also joined their Mastodon server and Discord. Posted my first Mastodon toot, how cute is that? The Small Web efforts are progressing, slowly but surely! I'm feeling happy about these decisions.
It feels like a standing up to an abuser by leaving and doing better off without them. (The abuser in question, of course: mainstream social media)
Naturally, I messed around with all the settings on my omg.lol profile and looked at all their offerings and IT'S A LOT. My brain has been in a bit of information overload today. I'm barely getting around to writing updates for all the blogs. (Yes, I'm still managing daily posting to three blogs. How long will I keep this up? I do not know.)
My next buy-in to the Small Web is a Pro plan for the Pika blog... but also maybe I can start off with a month purchase for Bear AND Pika and see which one I like most.
Pika is just so cute, the mascot and the little quirky touches added throughout the site make the whole posting and viewing experience a delight.
Bear is fine, and the discovery feed is nice, but it somehow falls flat in terms for scratching the blogging itch. Maybe if I spent more time customizing Bear, I'd have a better experience. But I'm more focused just getting words onto the paper (screen) because writing is how I can organize my thoughts.
And as I'm embracing my autistic + ADHD ways, that feels very, very necessary. Writing is where I can be most honest, because I can review the words written before me. They feel and are much more tangible than words vibrating through speech, with no visual aspect to edit. The visual of seeing my words allows me to see if I'm writing from my heart, writing from my insecurities or trauma/wounds, or writing from a place of trying to meet social expectations.
Now that I'm getting more courage to share my words more openly, I wonder how that will affect my writings? Why does the work change when you anticipate more eyeballs watching it?
This is my next step of recovering out loud... wish me well and wish me luck!
Will get to writing more tomorrow.
Thanks for being here.
Sincerely,
Nadine ♥