11 days into Bear blog
It's been fun so far. I wrote in my last post... that I have actually been surprised at the fact that people actually see my posts, that they "toast" them, and that even sometimes drop me an e-mail. It's a nice way to get plugged into a community, which is what I felt when I blogged circa early 2000s, but I think it took a bit more time back then. So this is a welcoming surprise.
I kind of went into this as a fun little experiment. I randomly found the platform surfing through neocities sites. Bear seemed like something I could set up pretty fast and keep it pretty minimal if I wanted to.
Six posts are up already, and this will make 7.
I didn't post anything over the weekend, and over the past few days. Not because I didn't want to, and not because I didn't have a topic to write about. There were a few topics that I REALLY wanted to write about. But I found that the urge to write them was more reactionary, than motivated by the fun of blogging and posting, or writing to express something that is on my mind.
I really like how people write reply posts and you can see them sometimes on the Discover page. I think I was wanting to write a couple of my own reply posts, but I decided to step back and think through them a little more, and see if I could make my points coherent. And decide if I even want to post blogs about these topics at all. I might still write about these topics.
Even though Bear can be a low friction platform that reminds me of early 2000s Blogger (Blogspot), which I found really fun, it still exists in 2026. So from my lens, I don't want to bring over any unconscious "Social Media" type pressures and impose them on myself. Especially on something that brought me joy and satisfaction in the past. If you read my last blog post then you would know that I have a way of transferring habits to different platforms. Don't want to do that with this one.
One of those habits is feeling the need to post everyday. As you can see, I've gotten over that. But it can become one of those things that if I don't post for too long, days can become weeks. And blogging for the sake of blogging, like creation for creation's sake is something that I do enjoy. So I'll try to keep focusing on the enjoyment of blogging, and try to let go of those habits from social media.