Trending content 🤮
- «This parts of your life would make really good content. You missing out golden opportunity by not capturing and publishing them.»
- «Such-and-such platform is really great right now, you can appear in trending feed, pretty easy. You can gain audience there pretty fast.»
Those are things I've been told by a friend recently. I have no doubt that her intentions were benevolent. So, it got me thinking:
- Do I really want to publish what is "good" and not what I feel like sharing?
- Do I want to figure out what the audience wants to see or do I want to show what I have to share and figure out who my audience is?
- Am I fine with being steered by an algorithm, which decides what is "tranding" and what's not, censoring myself according to platform's rules?
Creating this site, on my part, was a statement. Statement that I like my freedom too much to be bound by the rules of some platform. Statement that I could not care less how big my audience is, as long as they are, truely, my people. Statement that I have something to share and if it is not "trending" — so be it.
P.S.: to be honest the other reason for creating this site was me being fed up with questions like: - «Are you on This-Social-Media-Platform?». So, I thought pretty cool and universal answer would be: «No, I have my own website instead.»