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Abbie Normal @catonano

this social networking thing

it's wrong

the federation attempt is for countering the siloes

But when we had blogs and blog rolls we were better off

We wrote more, more thoughtfully

Today most blogs seem abandoned and their owners are here or on twitter blabberring all the time.

Me included, of course

it's a net loss

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@catonano I fully agree with you. I haven’t blogged since 2014. Part of the reason is the declining health of my wife. Another reason is my lack of time/pleasure blogging.

I’m not sure it’s all social media, but it contributed to the decline, for sure.

@catonano Indeed:

• Blog Posts: 500 words — thin content
• Social Media: 500 characters — made for real conversations

I think, the main factor is feedback: what's the point of writing a thoughtful blog, if it's only read by search engine crawlers for indexing, and no feedback whatsoever?

@amiloradovsky @catonano (technically yes since there is rss feed and that there is a bridge rss-activitypub)

@marsxyz
If you are asking about #Logarion, it doesn't support it directly yet but I intend to add it. It does have #Atom #feed though.

@amiloradovsky @catonano

@marsxyz @amiloradovsky @catonano What would you want for that? I hope to make Agora federate soon. It's aimed more at being a federated forum, but I could probably make it work for blogging too, I bet. :/

@amiloradovsky @catonano
> I think, the main factor is feedback:

- THISSSSSSS

@Antanicus

To be honest, I have strong ambivalence about how much of myself to put "out there" in a blog.

Maybe the encouragement of even the slightest feedback here, combined with a shorter average contribution that is as easily harvested yet still leaves me feeling less vulnerable from toot to toot, is what helps me.

@catonano @amiloradovsky

@catonano have you heard of the #indieweb? It's pretty much exactly what you're talking about. I've been wanting to get into it but the implementation is still pretty technical. The website is indieweb.org

@acdw I heard about it, yes

For now I have a simple stati personal blog

But I don't feel like setting upconfiguring a server to deal with webmentions and those other things

I'm lazy

When I have a new post, I announce it here and on a few mailing lists

I should give my blog some static pages and include info about myself

I'd also lie to distribute it on ipfs too but I'm too lazy for that too

We'll see

Tanks fo the suggestion ❤️

@catonano sure! And I am right there with you on the lazy front. The whole scene seems fairly complicated, way past my pay grade.

I've found that having a site helps me write more, to fill it up.

@acdw @catonano I think webmebtions/trackbacks/etc. are static-site-hostile. For example, every i2p user can check a box and have a static site. There are many good static site generators, case closed.
If you want it to support indieweb, you have to be geeky enough not to have much of a life to blog about 😜

@catonano I disagree. Blogging is alive and well. We can eat BOTH vegetables AND cake!

@feoh

I hope you're right

I have a blog myself and I know few others, indeed

But it's not as sparkling as it used to be

@catonano people have floated making a tumblr-like version of this, namely @codeawayhaley was talking about this a while back, and i still think it's a great idea.

obviously that'd suffer from the same drawbacks as, well, tumblr, but there are people who write thoughtful and nuanced posts on tumblr still

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@catonano I've had a weekly writing project on my "don't call it a blog, it's a journal" (ha, lol) since the start of 2017.

Nobody reads it, of course, because nobody wants to leave the social media interface they're in. But I keep trying.

@catonano greyduck.net

I stopped using it as an actual journal *mumble* years ago, but I keep the domain around for puttering and projects.