I still catch myself, after publishing a post, eagerly going to Micro.blog (and sometimes even to Mastodon, Bluesky or Threads) to see if I get replies or if the post gathers any response.

Needless to say, I have very few followers in this English endeavor of mine, so that does not happen very often.

I dislike both sentiments: the dopamine kick when someone replies, and the slight disappointment when time goes by without any reaction.

They both keep me tied to some dependency that still remains from the old days of Twitter.

And I don’t like being tied nor hooked to anything.

So I’m pondering a total blackout. Switching off my blogs (poor things, they are tiny and I want to isolate them) from any kind of social media, even cozy communities like Micro.blog, and just rely on mail communications and RSS.

I believe that if I delete my feeds from my Sources section, nothing will show up in the Micro.blog timeline. And if I switch off my ActivityPub user and stop cross-posting, I’ll be off Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads too.

From then on, I’ll have a home page and two blogs out in the deep space of the Internet without a tether to the world.

I will write to the unknown, every blog post will be a message in a bottle; I will try to correspond with other bloggers or even readers via email; and I will offer my RSS feeds to the kind souls that ever visit my place.

If I practice a lot and my writing gets any good, a few people might stop and read. And every single one of them will be a cherished and celebrated visitor.

So that’s what I’m pondering. It sounds good to me.