Iām trying to find a way to use both Micro.blog & Write.as and I just canāt come up with any ideas for it. Is anyone using both? I need some tips. : ridwan.micro.blog
@jakelacaze @pimoore For me, I havenāt clarified my usage. I was thinking of posting weekly learnings and interesting links. Not calling it a newsletter but something like that.
@Dino You are right. Both can do micro-posts and longform posts. I was thinking of using micro.blog as a daily photo-blog and maybe use the W.a as a daily journal. Let me try it for sometime and see how I feel. I might end-up keeping both.
@ridwan hey Ridwan, Iāve stumbled across this post nearly a year after you first shared it.
Iām currently dancing between both platforms. I currently use write.as for my long-form writing, and micro.blog to share said long-form writing, some sporadic micro posts, and for the friendly community here.
In an ideal world, my ā80/20ā would be skewing towards write.as (and probably more like 95/5!). I think it depends on how much you want to use these places for āwritingā vs the āsocialā aspect.
Whilst micro.blog does support long-form writing, I am a big believer in an environment affecting oneās own āapproachā. My experience has been that, at this moment in time at least, Micro.blog is predominantly being used for sharing micro-posts. Write.as offers a distraction-free environment built for long-form writing. Native commenting between users is currently being tested which, I believe, over time will lead to meaningful, thoughtful connection over time between (predominantly) longer-form writers (and between Write.as writers and readers, should @thebaer make the choice to roll out on-blog commenting more broadly).
My excitable brain (and desire to share little updates with friends and acquaintances on twitter, where I syndicate to from here), does micro-post a little, but for me the need to double-down on my long-form writing is strong.
ps. it looks like @dino takes a similar approach. and Iām aware @uncertainquark has been pondering on similar things recently, too.
pps. thanks for sharing this micro.post, and allowing me to thoughtfully reflect and write back this (macro)post, in return š
@jasraj @ridwan Iām with Jasraj on this. Micro.blog never felt at home to me for longform writing specifically whereas the distraction- and people-free design of write.as and its incredible WYSIWYG editor helps evoke longer musings. I currently use Substack for both my blogs however due to its overall superior feature set but I love the clean-slate write.as editor so much that I use it to write and think just to figure stuff out, for which @thebaer deserves so much credit.
@jasraj Wow. Firstly, thanks for taking the time to respond to that post.
Crazy that I was thinking about how to better use M.b along with W.a over the past few days. And, this post came as a pleasant surprise for me. I think Iām slowly moving over to W.a for long form posts. I suppose understanding and clarifying our intentions for using W.a & M.b is key here. This seems to be excellent topic to journal and reflect.
@uncertainquark I watched few YouTube videos on Substack, never got around to it. I think for my needs and wallet, I need to reconsider some/many subscriptions. W.a is awesome for long form writing and I like how things are progressing there.