I’m undergoing something of a digital rebrand at the moment. Mostly Canadian rebranding.
With the current state of events, and the ongoing effort to buy Canadian out here, I found myself asking:
“Why am I running all my sites on American servers and paying American companies for American domains?”
I did a little research through CIRA, and decided to buy one new .ca domain name, rather than keep paying for six .com domains. Am I worried that someone could steal those domains? Sure, but my traffic has died down considerably over the last two years, mostly due to a lack of online activity from myself.
Whenever I started a new comic or ongoing project, they would get their own domain and website. I’m not doing that anymore. Some of my old projects are going to be moved over here, most will be put out to pasture.
I have deleted most of my social media accounts. I am down to BlueSky, Substack Notes, Reddit account (which I don’t consider social media) and a Mastodon account I have already abandoned and only auto-posted the odd haiku.
I still have a YouTube channel, but that’s about to get the same rebranding everything else is. I’m converting it to a vlog because I have a feeling the next year is going to be very interesting for me, and it would be nice to have a record of it. Also, it would be a huge plus if I could finally put that film degree of mine to use.
Patreon and Substack have made me absolutely no money, but I’m going to keep them active until a reasonable Canadian alternative can take their place. Especially since I’m going to make a point to be much more active on both this year.
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