I've started getting back into reading stuff in an RSS reader, listening to podcasts, running a blog, avoiding any interactive space where things move too fast

I've started getting back into reading stuff in an RSS reader, listening to podcasts, running a blog, avoiding any interactive space where things move too fast (like Twitter). This is about where I was around 2008-2014, after the internet went mainstream and before I had a smartphone. Interactions were more energizing than distressing back then. But I'm also keenly aware things will change, so I see this as a foundation rather than a place to stay. You can't just stay fixed in place and expect to have any input on the future. I've been back on Mastodon more since it has a lot of the good parts of past Twitter with less of the bad. I wrote an article that did numbers here called "ActivityPub could be the future." I pulled it since I got a bit cynical about the whole thing, but I might use it as the basis for something new.