Anyone who enjoys writing or photography or sharing anything online should have their own microblog at their own domain. Haven’t we learned by now that posting exclusively on other people’s platforms is a dead end? Might as well write on scraps of paper outside and let the wind take them.

@manton Agree, but part of the problem is many people see the big platforms as “where social happens online” and also as “something I can get paid for doing.” I enjoy travel/outdoors and so many of those friends are great people but are caught up in “I can get paid to travel & hike, sign me up!”

@manton Agree! 👍🏽

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> Might as well write on scraps of paper outside and let the wind take them.

Believe it or not, there are plenty of people who are fine with this. All they are looking for is temporary social validation or instant gratification. Hence popularity of Snapchat as the original concept and Instagram stories.

@manton from what I’m seeing around me, people just don’t care. When I talk about the open web, Fediverse, etc., people look at me like if I was an alien. It is what it is.

@manton Why "microblog" rather than blog? To encourage regular posts?

@manton Yours is a future perspective, as @prakik points out. I don’t necessarily want to save everything for the future, but I darned sure want to make these archiving choices for myself. FWIW, a lot of the commentary I’m seeing conflates “social” with “broadcast” because big platforms like the old bird were often good at combining the two. I experienced the imminent death of a smaller social platform before the bird’s murder, but the fall of 2022 still took me by surprise because I had assumed that the power of advertisers would help enforce certain social norms. Never again. (Meanswhile, Meta’s logrithmic shenanigans continue to reinforce your message.)

@_thegeoff Blog too. I think sometimes people assume with a full blog you can only have longer essays. But really it’s all the same thing, technically.

@manton Yeah - I run a self-hosted blog, but tend to use it for longer form stuff. Which means I don't post regularly (bad for SEO, but hey, that's not why I have it).
Using it to microblog is fairly pointless, there's no audience compared to, say, here. And given I can, and do, regularly export, no need?

@manton @amerpie Can confirm.

@manton I publish on social media and get 10,000 views, then it’s gone. The same thing on my own site gets 100 views, but lasts as long as I want it to. How to optimise visibility and longevity? POSSE is one solution. Any other ideas?

@writingslowly POSSE is really the way to go, in my opinion. Takes a lot of the effort and thought out of it.

@manton This is specifically why I’m here.

@manton Honestly, that's the point