My First 1000 Days: Highlights
1000 days ago, August 10, 2011, I stumbled upon hubski. thenewgreen encouraged me to visit saying it was a cool place. At first glance, I wasn't aware of the discussions. It seemed more like a wall of links to articles primarily about technology. I was curious but didn't get it. I was not a refugee from Reddit or any other web aggregator. Any article (such as those on Reddit or the New York Times) followed by 2000 comments seemed unreadable to me. It was a lonely web.
I posted my blogs from time to time to an audience of robots, some friends, and strangers. If I found a computer-related article of interest, I posted it on hubski. Then sometime early in 2012, I started posting blogs on hubski. My hit count started to climb. There were comments and discussion. Later in 2012, I was added to dvh. Sweet. My web loneliness began to evaporate into internet ether.
dvh was a major highlight of my first 1000 days.
Enjoying people's writing, especially poetry is another highlight. The first #todayswritingprompt was in February 2013. There have been about 20 so far and a lot of great writing. Often the prompts would arise from suggestions from other hubski posts creating a thread of continuity between people and discussions.
I began to think that humans ran and participated in hubski and the Detroit meetup proved it. Another highlight. Soon after I met forwardslash in Vancouver. More humans.
I enjoyed participating in tng's podcasts and various attempts at collaborative poetry and fiction. I love insomniasexx's newsletter.
I must confess that other highlights occurred when hubskiers would pm me with personal problems, saying something like: "I've been reading your thoughts on life and love for the last couple of years, and would like to ask your opinion." Not only did I realize that there were real people out there, but I suspected that I might also be a real person.
Often, I would write hubski with a question and I'd get great answers and support.
I won't go on with highlights. There have been many. I will post my 1000 birthday present to hubski in a separate post. It is all the suggested hubski slogans that I can find, in a more or less readable format. Probably my favourite is adapted from a kleinbl00 post:
Hubski: Pushing the darkness back just a little bit more.