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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

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

Isn't it amazing how elusive "are others here tolerable to have exchanges with" has become given all the interaction options?

Thinking about it a bit more, I guess I've subconsciously seen/leveraged posting as a means to create contexts for exchange. Posting "to have a voice", "to be heard", as some sort of "release" (as opposed to "holding it all in")... well, I'm not going to say such are objectively lousy propositions. They just don't work for me, because they feel like the equivalent of wandering into the woods to find a tree stump to talk to.

I need to know what I've written matters/mattered, and it's not something I can pretend happens/happened by believing it probably or "must have" happened because there are potentially so many readers. I gots to feel just beyond some threshold of certainty that it happens/happened. And I honestly don't care if the feedback is positive (heh... initially typed 'postive'..) or negative. Either way: loneliness temporarily solved.

Is how it seems/feels....

And I suppose that makes me sound as though in some non-optimal marriage, because of views a la "shouldn't that be enough if/when it's 'right'?" But for me it's more complicated than that, because there's more to me and my wife than we could be interested-in/capable-of interacting with. There are many, many areas in which my wife and I are incredibly mutually perfect for each other. But there are some areas in which expecting overlap is futile.

So there's this, or other forms of this.

But - back to my first sentence - I'm astounded at/by how difficult meaningful overlap is to find "out there". And it seems even worse than ever given how hair-triggered people have seemingly become to shun/ghost over beliefs, which of course is an environment/scenario begging for an interactive experience somwhere between disingenuity and silence....