Right this moment, I wrote the next publish on the brand new Second Life social media platform, Primfeed (which you’ll presently solely learn if you have already got an account on Primfeed, as I’ve not but chosen to make my Primfeed profile and posts publicly viewable):
With all of the batshit-crazy political information popping out of the U.S. at the moment making me really feel anxious and depressed, I’ve determined that, so as to protect my psychological well being, I now need to abandon the final conventional social media platform I used day by day: Reddit. Because of this, any longer, I’m solely going to be utilizing Primfeed, and NOTHING ELSE: No Reddit, no Mastodon, no Twitter/X, no Fb, no Instagram, no TikTok.
Company-run social media platforms are all changing into a poisonous cesspool and dumpster fireplace, with damaging results on my psychological well being. I give up Fb, Instagram, and Twitter years in the past, and I’ve by no means bothered with TikTok. I haven’t bothered checking into Mastodon in nicely over half a yr now. Reddit was my final refuge, however alas, now not. I’m OUT. (I introduced late final yr that I used to be shutting down my weblog, however in gentle of me now leaving Reddit, I should take a while to mirror a bit extra on that call. I additionally want to consider whether or not or not I wish to make my Primfeed profile public.)
It seems to be like 2025 is shaping as much as be a fair crazier and extra chaotic yr than 2024, and I would want to flee to my beloved Second Life now greater than ever!
A fast replace: final November, my physician stepped in and put me on full-time sick go away for a few weeks. I went again to work on half-time sick go away, and in the meanwhile, that can proceed till the tip of April, 2025. My supervisor at work has additionally stepped in to handle my present workload, and I need to report that I’m now not engaged on establishing the digital actuality lab mission at my college library system. I’m simply feeling extremely burned out and totally exhausted, nonetheless, and it will take me fairly a while to heal.
In gentle of my determination at the moment to give up Reddit (the final conventional social media platform I used to be nonetheless utilizing, albeit with out establishing an account, i.e. read-only and anonymously), I do now have to re-evaluate my determination late final yr to cease running a blog fully. The reality is that I’m nonetheless feeling drained and burned out, and I don’t have the time, power, or inclination to weblog. So I actually don’t know the place issues stand for the weblog proper now. It should stay up; I don’t plan to take it down. I may even maintain the related Discord server working, as it’s nonetheless being utilized by a very good variety of individuals. I’ve zero plans to take the RyanSchultz.com Discord server down. Nevertheless, I’ve, as of January 1st, 2025, suspended charging my current Patreon patrons (and a really large thanks to these of you who’ve chosen to help me financially by way of Patreon these previous five-six years; it has been, and remains to be, vastly appreciated).
Proper now, I have to deal with my good bodily, psychological and emotional well being, and I have to deal with returning to my paying job, full-time (minus the VR lab mission). These are my priorities in the meanwhile. In an effort to obtain that focus, I’m avoiding all social media (besides Primfeed), and all metaverse platforms (besides InSpaze on the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, and my beloved Second Life, which reliably places me in a snug circulation state, and continually brings me pleasure amid the gloom).
All the pieces else should wait, together with this weblog. I can’t make a ultimate determination about my weblog till a lot later this yr, as soon as I’m in a greater place. Thanks to your feedback, and your help over the previous 7+ years.
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