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I've felt a strong desire to have to retreat from the internet of late. I shed internet identities regularly, and have come to enjoy the experience. It was only somewhat recently that I begun to use my real name on the internet. Oh what's that? WHOIS Lookup shows that I purchased this in 2018? And that was 7 years ago? Huh, I guess that's not so recent anymore.
This cycle might have lasted longer than usual, but it remains a cycle nonetheless. While I continue to plan to use my domain name, this space will become much more "professional", and all my rambling, wikiblogarden posts will move to a new domain. I'll have to configure redirection, and possibly rebuild the SSG that powers it. I'm also planning to bring down rss.sealight.xyz and git.sealight.xyz, but all of that sounds like a whole bunch of work...
I could blame at least part of this retreat on my waning interest in self hosting. Though I have yet to purchase any replacement subscriptions, the maintenance burden no longer seems worth it for those specific services, especially when replacements are readily available. Thank you to @Boris for getting Commons Computer going! :)
But you and I both know that this isn't the primary reason. In fact, I could've kept the same alias even after moving, and in part I have because of OAuth.
The political decline of the Imperial core certainly plays a role here.
That too, does not capture the entire story
Renewal, Rebirth, Retreat, Something new ferments inside me