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title = "Why a Blog in 2023?"
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- 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
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