Computer Woes

 

me, contemplating life

I have been writing this blog since 2008.  Blogspot seemed like a fairly easy platform to use and it had some nice features that made it user friendly.  And it has served me well.

However, I heard that Google/Chrome now 'owns' the platform and for the past year or so I've been ignoring Google as much as possible.  Over the weekend, Google shut me out of Blogspot - unless I use Chrome as my preferred internet browser.

I don't like it when companies run by dude bros try to force me to do something I don't want to do.  So I have been looking around for another option to continue writing my posts.

There are a list of things I'm trying to put 'right' (in my definition) and getting out from 'under' Google is pretty high on my list.

I'm 'stuck' with Word even though that isn't great anymore either.  But I've been edging out from under the thumb of Google/Chrome and continue to work to do that.

But I needed a transition option.  So I took a deeper look at the blog platform on ko-fi and while it is not as sophisticated, I can make it work in the interim.

The goal right now is to move my blog to my own website where hopefully there will be less interference by billionaires dictating what I can and cannot do.

Of course redesigning my website to accommodate the blog is going to take some time plus I will need to learn yet another software program (probably).  But in the meantime, I have written a couple 'practice' posts on ko-fi which are now posted to my ko-fi site.  (You can reach my ko-fi site by clicking on the little coffee icon, then bookmark that page.)

I think you can 'subscribe' so that you get notices when I post another, but I've yet to test that.  I will continue to post links to the blog on FB and other social media (I'm trying a few different options at the minute) and so far I'm on Bluesky and am trying out a brand new Canadian based site.  

In the meantime I will leave this account active so that the index is still 'live' and the topics can be searched.  But I will only rarely post here.  If nothing else, leaving here will mean fewer bots mining my site for data or leaving comments to promote their products, which means I have to keep removing them.

Plus ca change and all that...