HiMY SYeD - littleFedi
Labyrinth Maker from Toronto, Ontario.
A few minutes ago, maybe ten minutes ago now as I type this into littleFedi, I decided to turn off the television box.
Immediately I felt relief.
I still feel relief.
I was overwhelmed with all the 25th anniversary coverage.
Even using watching Canadian CBC news channel as some kind of proxy or filter to lessen the "overwhelmingness", it became overwhelming.
Exercising self-agency, I am giving myself permission to give myself permission to decide whatever I watched on TV already is enough for me, for today, to remember this day, 25 years ago.
25 years ago today, I was updating my Postnuke CMS powered blog/website, and as 9 a.m. rolled around, I randomly decided to turn on the TV and have on as background the Buffalo, NY, ABC Channel ( whose signal all Torontonians typically have access to via antennae or cable ), which would be airing Live with Regis and Cathy Lee.
I stopped updating my website, and kept watching the TV news. For hours.
Today, right now, I have stopped watching the TV News, and will return to updating web stuff.
But later, not right now.
I have nothing profound to offer.
...I keep forgetting, I wrote an entire book about/relating to all this the following year, 2002.
It hasn't been online for years. Maybe I work on putting it back online ? Maybe begin that later today.
H.
I "Ghosted Myself" .
Information wants to be free. Information is priceless.
Somewhere between those two, cognitive dissonance becomes de-prioritized and ends up as public notebooking via online blog or social blog posts.
I stopped blogging in great detail about my unique, new-to-the-world, Labyrinth designs and its underlying Islamic Geometry math used to create them.
I simply posted the "After" photos of my Labyrinths made in Public Spaces like parks and weekend festivals, keeping the "how to" "Before" and "During" photos to myself, not sharing them online at all.
Without even noticing it, I have almost stopped posting any photos of my works anywhere.
Why?
AI Scraping of my Labyrinth and public artwork blogs.
Two plus years ago, the page views on years' old posts began to go up, from dozens to THOUSANDS per post.
Deciphering the referral traffic, and it was almost completely bots visiting my old posts.
Do I want AI Companies selling my self-taught skills as their own?
I don't know what these companies are doing with my Information.
I stopped Instagramming [sic], Mastodoning, and blogging my Labyrinth stuff.
Online, it "looks" like I haven't made any new Labyrinths in years,
Yet, In the real world, it's been a most productive time in terms of new public art created around Toronto since before the Pandemic.
I think all the way back to why I previously shut down or removed a number of personal websites.
One of those reasons was the comments from spam people/automated.
I find still feel that way now, but it is the AI scraping, in lieu of the comment spam of yesteryear.
I wonder how many other people have also "Ghosted" Themselves?
| #Labyrinths #LAbyrinth #PublicArt #Toronto #AIscraping #Blogging #Ghosting #Ghosted
So we can quote a post found later on within an existing thread,
And then as a new top-level, first in a new potential thread, post,
Again we see the "[_] Blog post" option appear in the post editor.
So now I can visually begin a new thread, or have it remain as a single post which now also can appear on my LittleFedi Static Blog page.
Very nice.
@himysyed
@himysyed And in conclusion, this is my third and final post capping my first LittleFedi Thread.
My intention was to create a thread,
Then circle back to the First Post in this thread,
Edit that first post and checkmark the "[_] Blog post" radio box,
So it would appear in my LittleFedi Static Blog page :
https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@himysyed/blog
As per https://littlefedi.org/blogs.html
Only the first post atop / beginning of a Thread can also appear on the Static Blog.
Any subsequent "replies", even if it is from myself, cannot become Static Blog Post.
All right, let's see what happens....
First of three "posts" using LittleFedi that I will "thread" together as a demonstration to myself to see what happens...
| #LittleFediThread #LittleFediBlogPost #LittleFedi
[Post EDIT : okay I circle back and am adding/added this to the Static Blog ]
A story my Dad told me during the single digit years of childhood...
He read in the newspaper about a man who lived in Las Vegas who made his livelihood via gambling every day.
He set down rules for himself, had the self-discipline to never change those rules.
The man would visit the Casino every day, and begin with a budget of $20.00.
Maximum.
Whenever he lost that initial $20.00, then that was it for the day.
He left the casino and enjoyed the rest of his day.
Other times, his initial "Seed Money" of $20.00, via subsequent betting, would grow.
Whenever that Total Daily Winnings reached a certain dollar amount, I can't recall whatever that amount was, this man would cash out and leave the Casino.
No matter how much of a "roll" he was on, or sudden big bet winnings, once he reached his daily target number, or surpassed it, he quit for the day.
He wasn't greedy, nor needy.
He treated this behaviour like a regular Day Job one would go to, work at, then leave and go home.
The man had a house, wife, kid, a regular life, in Las Vegas.
What does this have to do #littleFedi cf. Mastodon?
My first year or so being on my original Mastodon Instance, I didn't realize how many hours I was spending there everyday, I often lost track of that time.
I consider that an "anti-pattern" I wish to avoid.
I wasn't spending "money" as one does at a Casino, I was spending time.
The direction of LittleFedi provides for what I consider "patterns" which I wish to enjoin in.
Accessing the Fediverse via this LittlefFedi approach does not feel like a Casino.
And with that, I going outside to enjoy this Sunny September Saturday around Toronto.
My name is HiMY (Pronounced Him-Me), from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
I have been following all things #LittleFedi ever since @stefano 's replies about it began appearing in #snac2 related conversations.
Found myself reflecting on the LittleOne Community and LittleFedi possibilities often when I've been going about my day, away from the computer.
I'm usually that person in the room who looks at things from a different point of view and asks that question which seems obvious in hindsight, yet difficult to spot before it being raised.
For the past month, I keep seeing possibilities here, and the only way to ask such questions about them, was to finally join and experience LittleFedi for myself, to test my assumptions instead of remaining an outside observer.
Away from the computer, you may find me making #Labyrinths in and around my hometown of Toronto.