I don't need no social media for my photos

Back in the day, starting in 2005, I used to use Flickr for photos. I loved it. Those were the days when people posted random and unpolished photos. But then the web started to change and I stopped posting as did others. Flickr being sold, and then sold again and then not nurtured played into it too.

But I'm disillusioned with the state of social and the world, to be honest. I'm tired of my stuff being in a million different places. And then I realise, that actually the tech behind social is really not that innovative. It's mostly based around discovery and algorithms. Of course, there is more to it than that, but really, for me, it's all stuff I don't really care about. These platforms try to suck you in with something that doesn't really end up serving you.

There's no reason you or I can't have a strategy of sharing photos and videos on our personal blogs. So that's what I'm going to do.

Also, this is my warning to you to expect photos from my day to day life. 😃 And because Ghost is awesome, I may likely make some of the more personal and family ones require a (free) account to view. I can make my own privacy rules!

My plan is to export all my photos from Facebook, Instagram, X and Flickr and save/dump them to my Apple iCloud. Out of all the big tech companies out there, Apple seems to be trying to respect privacy, operate with ethics and not easily give in to the removal of DEI initiatives.

The more practical angle of this is that all my photos are already taken with my iPhone and automatically saved to iCloud. I lack time right now to sort through them. My ideal scenario is that I know my photos are in a safe place, then maybe one day I can choose to create something with them.