Over the past decade I have been suspended, blocked, banned, or shadow banned by many of the mainstream social media and blogging platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Mastodon and Medium. And I’ve been black listed on blockchain sites like Steemit & Hive. The few remaining ones I was allowed to post on uncensored have gone downhill to the point where there are barely any users left – Blurt, Bastyon, and Flote for example have all gone nowhere.
The only two platforms I’m still posting on as of 2024 are Blogger and Facebook. My real impediment to spreading the word, or any words, is being shadow banned by Google. That has taken the annual hits on my WordPress blog down from a peak in 2017 of over four million, down to an all time low of under 58k in 2022 – a decline of 98.5%!
Hits on my blog from 2006 to 2023 (the 2019 stats in grey appear to be a duplicate of 2018)
These days so few people are seeing anything I post I sometimes wonder, "is it worth bothering?" But then, almost as soon as that doubt creeps in, I get fired up again and think "YES IT IS, NEVER GIVE UP!"
So I'm continuing to post whatever I feel inclined to, as I always have, with my main change of attitude just being to ignore the hit counters, because I'm blogging for myself and it's just too bad if nobody sees anything I post!
If Google ever decide to ban me on Blogger, which they certainly could do (although I hope they don't, because it's still my favorite blogging platform in many ways - quick, convenient, and I like most aspects of the design), then, and only then, will I set up a new blog on a different platform and redirect the www.sift.co.nz URL there instead. But unless that happens I plan to continue posting on Blogger, and ignore the fact that I'm using my enemies own platform. (But I do keep backups of all my posts)
