Alter's Blog

I've made an anonymous blog

I've made an anonymous blog. This one is anonymous enough you may say. And you may be right. But you also may not.

I've made a private blog. There's a section for this in the Bear Blog Docs. I wasn't trying to make a private blog but I stumbled upon that page, and then I did.

It feels... like freedom. When you disallow the discoverability it seems that you also disallow the upvote button. I also disallowed robots. Not sure if it works with agents but whatever, I could not care less.

Or maybe I do care but that's where the anonymous part comes in. You must really know me to know it's me, and that's after you got the link for the blog. I know I can hide it even more if I remove the links. Just pages, just links. If I want to share with someone, I can. In fact, if I remove the nav (not sure if I can), you'll get a page and only that page you could read, which it could be my intention.

Coming back to the freedom part, it's like my journal but I know it's public. And I think of some of the people that one day I may share it with. And at the same time I don't think about anything, I just write what I want, just raw thoughts, no thread, no plan, no nothing. And that's actually everything.

I've had this blog for a couple of weeks and I'm still writing on it. It's easier to write there than it is here. When I know I'm discoverable, I try to keep a readable structure (not saying that I achieve it but I try). When I know I'm anonymous, public, discoverable by direct link only, not indexable, it's a whole different beast that feels really good.

Let's see if I can grab some of that energy and pour it here for the Bear Blog community to benefit from as I benefit from its energy every day.

Thank you for reading.

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