On making your own blog

I'm not really sure what I'm doing here.

A few months ago I stumpled upon something called the "small" web and kind of hyperfixated on that for a few weeks. I was reading a lot of blogs on the Gemini Protocol). Most of them were pretty personal, some were even an actual private journal.

What really spoke to me about those blogs was the feeling they described about "writing for the void". On Gemini, there is no interaction. No rate, like and subscribe buttons. No analytics. People would write, not to please some etheral ranking algorithm but because they needed to write.

So here I am. Writing words on the internet. I don't expect anybody to read this (well, except for some AI scrapers maybe). This might stay my only post. I might even delete the server again when I no longer feel like paying 5 bucks a month for a VPS.

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Writing this reminded me of a quote which I cannot actually remember right:

You shouldn't make art to please the masses, but because you could not not do it.

I probably botched that.

But anyway, that quote reminded me of another one, where I actually know the source:

To create is to bring something into existence that wasn't there before. - Rick Rubin

This is taken from Rick Rubin's book The Creative Act: A Way of Being. I recently picked that up at a local bookstore mainly because the cover looked cool. It also has this rough cloth texture like old books used to have. (At least it feels like an old-book kinda thing). And while that book is maybe a tad too esoteric for my taste, I can still get something out of it. Like that quote. :)

And with that we have reached the end of my mental capacity for today. Good night, void, and possibly until next time...