Where to begin — Once upon a time, I discovered fish — they were fascinating to me and I wore the public library out learning about everything aquatic. I also discovered authors like Kurt Vonnegut and Aldous Huxley along the way! Yes, I am boring — Yes, I am an introvert — Yes, I continually try to learn about other cultures/languages during my brief time upon this earth.
I know that I am weird and I have embraced this fact since I was about 10 years old. I am an enigma to my family, an oddity to the few close friends that I have kept along my life journey — And (I hesitate not to admit it) somewhat of a mystery to my beloved wife of 30+ years. I also think that I may be a part of a diminishing segment of DailyKos readers- who used to post personal diaries — but have been relegated to anonymity by the Dailykos hierarchy of story placements — This is a meta diary lamenting what has happened to this site- a place of wonderful engagement has devolved into a sad lament on criticism of right wing ideology. Everything is schemed upon top placement (where are the rescue rangers?) this includes AP stories- which have an incredibly right wing slant- and I’m confused why DKOS promulgates their stories without any correction whatsoever?
Folks used to enjoy coming here not to read headlines, but to engage with other people’s experiences.
So, Why I am I writing this diary? DailyKos needs more personal stories! But — sadly they will be quickly discarded -It is almost a Twitter like experience to spend hours on a written testament — and within 30 minutes — no one will ever see the story that you tried to share — It is disheartening to say the least — and way too many wonderful diarists have abandoned this platform...
The current site does not even resemble the interesting and engaging site that I experienced when I first joined in 2008. Almost everything is distilled down to headline news. — News, that I can find already on a myriad of venues — Yes, it gets clicks — but in my humble opinion, it fails to engage. I miss peoples’ personal stories.
There is a story behind the picture at the start of this post- I am boring- yet I have many stories to tell- as do you my fellow Kossaks- I don’t know how to steer this site towards more personal interaction-, please help save this site from becoming another mainstream media outlet!
I feel lost on this site- Markos makes money, but where are we the story tellers left?