Exactly! Why don't the people who click "like" on my comments on other people's substacks [whine!] just subscribe to mine? And why don't more of my pitifully few subscribers [whine!] comment? :)
The main reason, for me at least, is overload. RSS feeds and newsletter subscriptions multiply quickly and provide dozens, even hundreds, of pages to scan every day. It's simply impossible to keep up. At a certain point I just delete the newsletters and mark the feeds as read. Less often, I unsubscribe and unfollow. Neither is really satisfying, but the alternative is more a daily ice shelf collapse than an occasional snow flurry.
P.S. I will be checking out your substack now and then. It's on my patrol list now.
Exactly! Why don't the people who click "like" on my comments on other people's substacks [whine!] just subscribe to mine? And why don't more of my pitifully few subscribers [whine!] comment? :)
The main reason, for me at least, is overload. RSS feeds and newsletter subscriptions multiply quickly and provide dozens, even hundreds, of pages to scan every day. It's simply impossible to keep up. At a certain point I just delete the newsletters and mark the feeds as read. Less often, I unsubscribe and unfollow. Neither is really satisfying, but the alternative is more a daily ice shelf collapse than an occasional snow flurry.
P.S. I will be checking out your substack now and then. It's on my patrol list now.
From the audience side of Grasping, I add this last line too the poem:
..... Posting and lurking and lurking and posting is good life on Grasping to me.