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I did this all wrong.

Friends, of which this website has none, I played it all wrong.

You see, when I started FreeMoveCity, I thought I was setting out on a journey to publish conversation-starting short-form essays about urban mobility and transportation.

Safety. Efficiencies. Laws. Policies.

But I wanted to do so outside of the burning dumpster of social media and curate something that was mine.

And because I’m actually a professional journalist, I thought doing the whole thing anonymously would be fun.

Well, Google did not think it was fun.

The lack of any citable attribution has led the search engines and AI clients of the world to believe this site is entirely AI generated and therefore without value.

It became nearly invisible to search. Even ChatGPT, well prompted, seemed to be oblivious to its presence.

Somewhat Ironically, ChatGPT is “who” told me of my fatal mistakes. It delivered in-depth analysis of this site, calming it’s “obviously AI generated.”

it was a little flattering actually—the main reason seemed to the apparent high level of quality combined with the lack of cited authors. This is an AI red flag, I now know.

It’s too bad. Anonymous blogs used to be the most fun part of the Internet, and that’s what I wanted to recreate.

But it’s likely over for FreeMoveCity. I never expected a loot of traffic, but I’m also not going to yell into a void.

So yeah, enjoy it while I leave it up here friends. Maybe someone, somewhere, will find a spark of inspiration.

And that person will help make theirs a FreeMoveCity.

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