# Thoughts on Twitter and Medium ```yaml title: Thoughts on Twitter and Medium published_date: 2022-10-13 16:27 ``` 🐈‍⬛ --- I rejoined Twitter innocently enough, in order to get closer to people who were also using Obsidian and perhaps learn some new things about it along the way.  Suddenly there I was all wrapped up in Twitter again.  Almost instantly.  Started following a couple others to spice up the feed a bit for when there was nothing stirring within the Obsidian community.  Twitter then decides that they know what kind of person I am and stuff starts showing up on my timeline totally unrelated to anything on this side of the Mississippi. But in a way, it was a good thing.  When being shown TikTok videos that have made their way to Twitter, it was in that moment I realized why I left social media in the first place.  There has to be something else. Then I joined Medium, because everyone was linking to Medium articles and you could only read so many of them before they start nagging you for money.  So I paid them.  Then obligation set in to do some writing *on* Medium.  Be part of that whole fucking thing.  And sure, why not, I do need a good kick in the nuts to in order to write something with a purpose.  And it worked, or so I thought it was.  But then I'm thinking about what to write next and the hand on that wheel is most concerned with that got the most "claps" and or comments.  What the fuck. Who cares! Never had any monetary interest in anything that I am doing online, so why do I feel the need to behave like these people who are!? It's ridiculous.  It's also part of the reason I have never spent too much time in the Obsidian community.  Those fine people and myself are so far-removed from one another that at times I wonder if the questions I have are even worth asking. Ⅲ --- <div class="benjamin"> <p>✉️ <em><a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject={{ post_title }}">Reply by Email</a></em></p> </div>