2021-01-26

Feeds

When things were kicking off at the start of the pandemic I spent a lot of time watching newspaper websites, in contrast to before where I barely looked at the news. And I also found myself searching for information on reddit and places like that. Then I found myself doing this sort of thing on my smartphone, and spending hours a day browsing, whereas before I just hadn't been doing that. I seemed to have lost the willingness to be alone with my thoughts.

I started reading content in Geminispace around that time, and thought about starting a gemlog like this one. There tends to be interested content around here. And I suppose some of the negative aspects of wanting constantly to be consuming content are mitigated somewhat by the minimalism of gemtext.

I don't want to be like this. If I stop and reflect for a moment on what it would be like not to be like this, however, it seems like it would be incredibly lonely. I guess the reality is that I'd just be facing the loneliness of the pandemic instead of trying to cover it up. Perhaps it would be beneficial to do that, but perhaps not very significantly beneficial.