Writer/podcaster; fan of books, podcasts, hockey, baseball, curling & movies. Regional Traffic Manager for a large Canadian media group. Views & opinions are my own.
I was also diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 35, in 2019. Sometimes I talk about that.
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off-topic but since you mentioned kbin: I’m using both platforms right now (beehive/lemmy and kbin)…from what I’m seeing so far I really prefer lemmy’s implementation of pretty much everything. Kbin itself is not any more or less complicated to sign up and start posting, but its organization is definitely more convoluted. Speaking of threads vs. microblogs etc. I read a FAQ posted there and it barely cleared things up for me.
An Internet … problem
Yeah, that’s 100% it. On the Internet in 2023, everyone needs to be right or win with their comment. It’s off-putting when you’ve been on the Internet longer than Gen Z has been alive.
Well, I tried introducing myself via kbin and I was going to reply to that introduction since I have now been accepted to beehaw…but I can’t find that reply in this thread. So I’ll write again!
I work in media (behind the scenes…but I also have a few podcasts on the go and I blog), I have epilepsy, and I like to talk about all sorts of subjects. I’m doing a poor job summarizing myself so I’ll just copy/paste from my Mastodon page (with some redactions):
Writer/podcaster; fan of books, podcasts, hockey, baseball, curling & movies. Regional Traffic Manager for [REDACTED]. Views & opinions are my own.
I was also diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 35 (4 years ago, now). Sometimes I talk about that.
Thank you both (replying to you and @Kwakigra@beehaw.org at the same time) - completely on board with what you’re saying. I approach podcasting in that way as well - I make a podcast that I would want to listen to, rather than trying to appeal to other people. That’s where I am with my writing - I guess the other side of it is trying to get around feeling like I’m part of the content mill vs. writing something I want to put out into the world.
I suppose the answer to that is: write what it is I want to write. If I feel that it’s something I want other people to read, THEN figure out how to get it “out there”.
I am glad that the break I’m taking from writing feels natural and not forced, and I do feel productive in that I’m actually getting some reading done of books I want to read.