i've been working on one...now motivation to finish? [hopefully/dauntingly. procrastination a powerful beast to slay.]

I'm not sure if it fits but I have a small manifesto on using social media as an artist

my homepage has a little "why neocities?" thing i typed up about tryna get away from large social media platforms.

uhh i am against manifestos but a little thing i can say right now is: i personally (me) (not telling anyone else to do this) always act like i'm just...talking to people. not really trying to present anything at all. i'm just having a long ass conversation with people -- well, usually, i have one or two specific friends i aim to be talking to. that's it. there's no magic

and actually that's why i started blogging. i would type up huge ass paragraphs in response whenever somebody asked me something or prompted me with something, and eventually i came to the realization i should be more concise interpersonally & not force my friends to read that shit unless they wanted to. 'that shit' became my blog

Hmm not sure about ‘presentation and perception via social media’ but our zine (Queen Beat) had an article about nostalgic for the internet and one I wrote about flying 8hrs+ to meet online friends and who is the “real” me - the one I presented to online friends or IRL friends.

Check out the writing of Sherry Turkle she has some great work on that (if I’m understanding correctly!)

you might enjoy "the handmade web" by j.r. carpenter. https://luckysoap.com/statements/handmadeweb.html it quotes a lot of other web-meta pieces that also might be helpful. "I evoke the term 'handmade web' to suggest slowness and smallness as a forms of resistance."

been meaning to do this since forever

https://blog.avas.space/blog-website-eval/ - blog & website in the age of containerized socials