Ten years ago we bought a field: Just a couple of acres on the outskirts of our village. Then we planted some trees: We planted a lot of trees, and a hedge. Thousands of plants. The trees grew: And now we have a woodland, complete with twisty paths and hidden glades: The children named it “Maze Woods”, and the name has stuck. Why did we do this? Of course, we like trees!

Why Use RSS 🔗I consume a lot of stuff on the Internet. A pretty incomplete list would include: Hacker News Mastodon & other social networks Assorted blogs and newsletters YouTube A number of these come with unwanted baggage, for example spam posts in blogs and newsletters, ads all over the shop and so on. Also, most of these require me to be online (although I can of course use a read-it-later service like Instapaper).

I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with social media. I’m sure this isn’t uncommon. For me there’s always been this clash between the “social” and the “media” parts. As if the creators of these networks had a completely different social experience to mine. I have attempted over the many, many years to use social media: to keep in touch with my friends to learn about developments in my fields of interests to get emotionally invested, outraged and keep scrolling doomwards The last I didn’t choose of course, but it’s what these networks are designed to do.