FOM? Why Should I Worry?

I’ve read lots of articles about the new FOM pricing tier on Medium, and while I am opposed to it on philosophical grounds. I realize that my opposition doesn’t matter to anyone else but me. I’m in a bit of a writing rut now, but that’s unrelated to the whole FOM issue. 

Initially, my reaction was to start exploring other writing platforms, but I already have my obscure personal website at https://www.dreamersreadyroom.com/ so that feeling of indignation quickly faded away. I did find a new platform that allows me to post to the Fediverse and Mastodon at write.as which is useful to me because I found Mastodon a much more pleasant and agreeable place than Twitter/X ever was. 

So, once I got past my initial reaction to FOM, I decided that the best course of action was a big dose of Fuckitol and then move on with my life. My writing rut continues to some degree. I suppose it has something to do with the holiday season, but Hal and I aren’t doing gifts this year. I sense that the world is a less kind place this year. It seems like everyone is itching to start a fight with everyone else. Hal and I are happy together, and if that offends some, I’m sure that there is some kind of online therapy to help them get over it. 

Whenever we’ve gone out, the tension is in the air. When we are kind and pleasant to those around us, we appear to be the oddballs in the crowd. We can handle that. 

Everyone seems on edge, I wish they could just relax, but I think there’s a lot of fear out there for the future. It’s always doom and gloom from the news media, and even that pessimism has found its way onto Medium. 

Therefore, I’m not upgrading to FOM. I wish those who do nothing but prosperity and success. I simply can’t afford it, and if this is the beginning of the end for Medium, then I’ll accept that and move on with life.