RULES OF BLOGGING

HOW BLOGGING SHOULD BE DONE

 Like most blogging old timers I had a bunch of rules in my head about how blogging "should" be done - what makes a real blog. Rules can be help us maintain our standards, but they can also just become a collection of unquestioned assumptions that are no longer working for us, and which we need to move on from. 

Our enemies ("the powers that shouldn't be") don't play to any set of rules that we would recognize, and times are now changing probably faster than at any point in history. So this year I've been trying to let go of some of my long held rules/assumptions, certainly including those applying to blogging.

Here are six of my old school blogging rules that I've mostly ditched on this new blog:

A REAL BLOG SHOULD BE SELF HOSTED ON WORDPRESS.ORG

 WordPress is getting endlessly more complex, and I wonder now if the whole WordPress platform is yet another deep state psyop, because let's face it, with over 455 million sites, or over 30% of all websites currently online using WordPress, it's highly unlikely that it isn't.

So I've gone back to using Blogger, and Blogger is owned by Google. But ultimately, Google seem to have censored the entire internet, and Blogger is easy to use and convenient. If my posts are going to get barely any traffic, I might as well use a convenient deep state platform (Blogger) rather than an inconvenient deep state platform (WordPress)

 https://sift666.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-end-of-era.html

 

A BLOG SHOULD HAVE A CONSISTENT NUMBER OF POSTS

Some bloggers do a post every day, while some only do one each month, but all blogs should stick within those extremes. More than one post a day is not OK, and less than one post a month is also not OK. Says who?. 

So far this year I've been doing about 40 posts a month, mostly very short ones or updates of my old posts. But that could easily change, to more or less, if I feel so inclined. If for example I do a short post about Flouride each day in July for Fluoride Free month, that would be 31 extra posts next month.

LINKS TO EACH BLOG POST SHOULD BE SHARED ON SOCIAL MEDIA

A real blogger promotes their content by sharing it on a range of popular social media platforms, in order to generate an audience. This year I have given up using all social media platforms apart from Facebook, so I'm not doing that. All social media platforms, and indeed the entire internet, are controlled to some extent by the deep state using their AI. 

I'm not doing blog posts as a paid job, really it's all for my own entertainment. Blogging is my muse (an imaginary being or force that gives someone ideas and helps them to write, paint, or make music). If other people read what I post that is great, but I'm not going to spend hours promoting my posts on platforms I mostly don't even use. (I do share some of my posts on my Facebook account)

 THE URL OF EACH POST SHOULD MATCH IT'S TITLE

I have edited the title or changed the publishing date of so many of the posts on this blog, that less than half of them would match up. Too bad, what sort of anal geek even looks at that stuff anyway? (Yes, I must admit I did used to do that...)

Never mind, if anyone types in www.sift.co.nz they will see something, but if they use the Google search engine to find my content, they probably won't see much.

 

THE MEASURE OF A BLOG IS IT'S POPULARITY

It was my plan at the start of the year to ditch the HIT COUNTER and give up looking at how many hits my blog got. I must admit I struggled with that, and ended up putting it back on. But as with all traffic on the internet, it is mostly just the artificial flows of the deep states AI, and has very little to do with content quality or real viewers.

This blog is still only getting about 100 hits a day, which is fairly insignificant, while my old blog used to get 2000 hits a day back in 2018 before it was black listed, which certainly sounds a lot better, but ultimately, who cares? Only me, nobody else gives a toss, and it all works better when I don't really care either.

 

 

A BLOG POST MUST CONTAIN BOTH TEXT AND IMAGES

 

  There is certainly some truth to that, it's the fundamental difference between a blog post and a tweet, but on a Blogger blog where everything is displayed as one long stream of posts, the old idea that any given blog post must be a complete entity in itself becomes sort of redundant. A picture tells a thousand words, and sometimes a meme tells a lot more than that. 

 

Sometimes I just want to post one image, and no, that isn't a real blog post, but it's my blog, for my entertainment, so some of my posts might just be one image (or a bunch of images) with no text at all. So be it. 

SWINGING BOTH WAYS

 We have both sorts of weather in Wellington NZ - Before and After!

RANDOM IMAGES #23

 

 

 

 

HOW TO GET A BETTER FACEBOOK FEED

It wasn't until I tried looking at my Facebook feed on my tablet that I realised just what a bunch of crap most people see when they look at Facebook. And that wasn't even using the mobile version! I never look at the internet using a phone but apparently 98% of Facebook users are doing just that.

STEP 1 - Use a computer or laptop, not a mobile phone or tablet.

Usually I look at Facebook on my PC or laptop, either using Windows 7 (Yes I still use Windows 7, but this will work on Win 10 as well) or Linux (I use Linux Zorin or Mint but this would be the same on any distro). It won't work on Android, and I don't know about Apple or Windows 11 because I've never used them.

STEP 2 - Add the Facebook Purity app (aka Fluff Busting Purity or FBP) to your browser - (this doesn't override Facebook's default settings as fully as it used to, and won't lock FB into a chronological feed anymore, but never mind, see step 3). This can get rid of a lot of crap. I go into settings and hide all the right and left sidebar links as well as turning off pretty much everything.

 https://www.fbpurity.com/

https://www.frot.co.nz/design/computing/use-f-b-purity-app-to-make-fb-usable/

STEP 3 - Get a chronological feed - This is the most essential thing to do with Facebook really, otherwise it is unusable. It's pretty easy to do, but you sometimes have to reset it because FB keeps trying to force your feed back to their controlled algorithm. 

Click on the nine little dots icon in the top right to open the Menu, then select "Feeds"

 STEP 4 - Use a good browser. It's all quite beyond me how this stuff works, but oddly I find Firefox is hopeless for viewing Facebook, while the Firefox fork Waterfox works best. Vivaldi or Brave both work OK as well. (I never use Chrome because I think it sucks, so I'm not sure how well that runs with FB)

For use on Windows or Linux I highly recommend the Waterfox browser. It's not widely used, but it's really good browser - like a faster version of Firefox with better privacy.

STEP 5 - Ad Blockers. I always use five ad blockers which is probably complete overkill, but they all seem to get along happily together so why not? I'm not really using them for Facebook in particular, they are there to block all advertising. It's probably not really possible to block all the advertising on FB, but I certainly see a lot less "sponsored posts" on my computer than on my tablet. Sometimes I go to the trouble of blocking particular advertisers, but mostly I just ignore them.

The five free ad blockers I use are Adblock Plus, Adblocker for YouTube, Adblocker Ultimate, AdGuard Adblocker, and uBlock Origin

I don't know which of these ad blockers is best so I just install all five of them - when it comes to ads I figure more blocking is better! This review on Techradar ranks uBlock Origin as #1 so I gave it a picture.

THE FINAL SOLUTION - Delete all the numpties. Find like minded friends, and bin any woketards. The days of signing up for Facebook using your real name and linking up with all your relatives and old friends is really over in this day and age in my opinion. I know a lot of people are still into that, but if you have been trying expose the globalist narratives, you probably have learned the shortcomings of that approach over the past five years in particular.

If you exclusively stick to being friends with people who can tell the difference between shit and chewed dates, a FB feed can be surprisingly good. Personally, I have given up arguing with anyone online, and just let any remaining tards of any kind block or unfriend me.

MY DIGITAL BILLBOARDS

 This may not be an effective tactic at all, but it amuses me so I'm going to keep on doing it anyway whether it works or not.

I like playing around with found images, making them into art and memes, as well as editing my own photos and art. So I end up with hundreds of images that mostly end up sitting unseen in folders on my computer.

If I sign them with a whopping great "www.sift.co.nz" URL they become digital billboards for my blog. It's likely very few people will notice them, let alone go to the trouble of typing out the address and actually visiting the blog, but too bad, I think blog posts look better with more images.

They are fairly varied images, but to keep a consistent style I'm doing them all in a 1x1 ratio which I just like the look of.