It’s good to have something for myself again.

As of the time of writing this, this site is using a premade Hugo theme. I’m kind of sad I have to, but it’s a lot better than not having a site like this at all. This theme isn’t perfect, and it’s certainly not what I’d want out of this site, but it looks fine in most places and it’s a lot better than having nothing.

Despite rarely ever checking in on it, I am still mourning the death of Cohost.

Since Cohost shut down, I’ve wanted a blog space for myself. I don’t know how often I’ll use it, but I think it’s nice to have, because I’m not going to post my long-winded posts on fedi for all to see. I know that if I’m going to pick up my media thread again, it’s going to be here, at least; that was the niche I used Cohost for more than interacting with that community, and it served wonderfully.

I think the fact that I hadn’t set something up like this yet is part of the reason I’ve still been mourning. There was a pretty notable chunk of time where I didn’t have something to write shit down for real. Maybe I feel a bit too choked up on fedi, and I definitely have qualms with Bluesky from a systematic level, many of which are shared by the people that chose fedi over it, but I feel like I haven’t had a space like this for way too long, but I haven’t made any initiative to make that for myself until now.

I mean this to be a positive post, but it’s very negative in tone now that I start to type. I think that’s just my tone in general. It is great to have a place like this, though.