A Soft Return to Simplicity: Why I Chose Bearblog.dev
I started Bravely, because I wanted to share the truth about living with major depressive disorder.
But over the years, the blogging space changed.
Like a toxic algal bloom, the algorithm pushed us into a space where our words could no longer breathe.
We were told blogging is dead, the declaration pushing us into containing and framing our words to fit the algorithm.
Content creation hijacked blogging, bending our words, and skimming our experiences. For what? So our words can be sold back to us as content?
A visit to the Wayback machine reveals the many iterations of Bravely She Blogs, starting from 2020. Having been diagnosed with major depressive disorder (MDD), I wanted to create a personal blogs offering a more balanced, real life perspective of this devastating illness.
Instead of writing freely, I got caught up in a distracting spiral of trying to justify and defend the quiet, sacred reasons I write.
After five years of frustration I realised something, we don't have to compress our words into keywords and algorithms.
I'm so grateful I found this space. Thank you dear Herman for creating Bearblog.dev
Thank you for understanding the deep need for our words to flourish into belonging.
As I type, I can viscerally feel the algorithms loosening. I no longer need to chase the algorithm for my words to bloom.
And thank you dear reader, for venturing here too.
Every blog here matters.