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Although they don't directly apply, the lyrics:

communication breakdown
 it's always the same

come to mind.

I've no answers on places to read and/or write online. Just when I think I've found a potentially reliable place to read stuff that "does it for me", it either goes dead, or the writing that attracted me turns out to have been either the venue's "peak" offering(s) (quality and/or quantity sense), or accidental foray(s) into a favorite topic that quickly reverts back to "Today's weather: ain't is sumthin'?"-like topics. The net (ha) is I wind up with URLs/bookmarks that I wind up visiting/following in vain for a season, and then deleting.

And "search" is pretty much never useful for what I seek.

But then I suppose my fickle wants/needs along intake lines play a role in making things that once seemed interesting seem the pinnacle of boring, and then interesting again.. and then boring again.. and....

In other words, the internets can't keep up with my whims. It's really my own "newness whims" I'm addicted to - which, of course, is a guaranteed recipe for disappointment in a "same old" kind of world....

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~tffb wrote (thread):

or the writing that attracted me turns out to have been either the venue's "peak" offering(s)

then

It's really my own "newness whims" I'm addicted to

...I agree, answered your own Q. I am looking less for "what's there from others" and more for "are others here tolerable to have exchanges with", as *I* would do the writing on that/this platform, as where RSS has my "read stuff that looks like cool stuff" wants met there. As mentioned in another post, even RSS and the retro-masto feeds have dried up, and blog posts have dried up there (more), too. But that is a volatile post frequency. I've sat down on some one-off morning and seen 20 blog entries from different people and 30+ mastodon updates and I think "was there a solar flare?" lol!

I will explore Nightfall City and see what's around. Something clean and simple, though the writing format stays the same: GNOME Text Editor, which is so simple and straight forward that I abandoned the editors of the Web. There will likely never be a cohesive (JS-driven) solution there. A simple `textarea` works fine, but I like to just do the writing locally and be consistent with it.

Anyway, glad you're doing alright