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diff --git a/src/blog/why-blog.md b/src/blog/why-blog.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1cd6838 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/blog/why-blog.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +--- +eleventyExcludeFromCollections = true +permalink = false + +title = "Why a Blog in 2023?" +--- +- because i want to +- flaws of microblogging + - other people, mostly. + - harassment, unsolicited advice - blogs without comment sections add friction. nobody knows what the hell + the primary audience of a public post is (hint: it's still followers, just because you can see it doesn't + give you license to be an utter asshole as if you're being spoken to directly) + - doomscrolling + - despite the fact that people keep trying to spin up archives and search and everything, the format + is inherently better suited to ephemerality +- mastodon was pretty decent if you maintained a blocklist of about 1/3 of the instances out there (nazis and foss + evangelists) and had a high tolerance for dealing with self-righteous white leftists who think that they're immune + from doing anything wrong (particularly perpetuating racism) because they're neurodivergent or queer or both +- but with tumblr and cloudflare and facebook making overtures towards moving onto the activitypub-compatible fediverse + (or "mastodon" for short, for those who haven't heard about all the other software that works with mastodon) +- and we're just fucking burned out on maintaining both the software and a community |