So every now and again you hear a Influencer or big name state that they need to get off or limit their social media use. Twitter being the usual suspect for a number a reasons. The endless scrolling addiction, the advertisements, Trending praying on what will get engagement the most that usually ends up being negative, and accidentally stumbling upon some of the most garbage takes so bad you think you were in a grocery store of filled with people who never got the memo that no one asked.
And I am still salty about being told the touch grass, espeically when I do, in fact, touch grass but that’s another story.
And I started to recongize this more and more during the (peak of the) pandemic, and noticed that maybe this isn't the best for my mental heath, and I could be using my time on more productive things. Even if that's just unplugging to not overwelm myself and get decent sleep for once. Though like with any addiction or depenancy problem... it isn't easy.
And then Musk bought twitter, and that was my breaking point.
“Wow Nemes, THAT was your breaking point? A billionaire gets control over a site? Really?”
In a time before social media and user geenrated content sites were deominate in the way they are now, the internet was largely made up of smaller sites and blogs that were self hosted or hosted through a paid service. This means if you wanted to see if the site had an updated or new article, you'd had to phsyically go to that url. It was not centralized, and it can be a bit of pain to keep up with everything.
Little did this small baby Rambler know at the time that there was a standard to pull site updates into an aggregate feed that you could see in your lesure without an annoying notification going off. Enter Web Syndication protocols with the most well know being RSS, with Atom being a notable second.
This is a bit early to announce, but starting the beginning of December, I’m taking a break from Youtube until Febuaray 2023. I will be making a short on the channel of officially announce this, but I wanted to say this in blog as it’s faster to get out.
Hello all, Nemes here. I behind the Youtube Channel Nemes Content where I make mostly Tech and Video Game related videos and some shorts from time to time. All with make dumb brand of humour that I guess some people like.