I barely have a social media presence, have nothing I would put on a dedicated personal website (yet...), and have not set up an RSS feed. I'm going to miss Cohost, not just because of what Cohost is, but also because its shuttering means I'm going to lose a good handful of contacts, many of whom are scattering to places I can't or won't follow.
I feel like I'm going to return to being that person who isn't on any of the sites the people I care about are exclusively communicating on, and thus I won't hear much of anything from those people because those they assume everyone who Matters To Them is on those sites, and so I'll fall out of touch with them just because I refuse to make an Instagram or whatever. I've been that person before, and I can already feel myself slotting back into that place.
That sounds like a lonely existence, and it is, but I also hate how my social life is tied to the surveillance device I have to keep in my pocket at all times (my smartphone). Maybe it'll encourage me to touch more grass.
I have been trying to get more involved in my local furry community lately. Because I've cut myself out of 90% of my local community's social gatherings by being irreligious, I don't really know anyone in my area. But apparently I live in something of a furmeet hotspot, so I'm hoping getting more involved in furry life will be a decent band-aid for my hemorrhaging social life. Half of my previously-local friend circle has moved out of state, and my college friends are steadily graduating and moving away as well--that and they're the ones who share their whole lives on websites I don't use, and almost nowhere else, so between that and my discomfort around alcohol (adult social life seems to revolve around drinking) I feel like I've drifted away from them despite my best efforts.
I don't know where I'm going with this post, and it ended up a lot more dreary than I initially intended it to be. I guess I'll end it here.