Thinking out loud, for clarity
Some of us have set up a "bits" blog on Bear Blog, while preserving longer posts on our own self-hosted, self-owned blogging platforms.
Here's why this doesn't work:
- short-form content serves only four purposes:
- navel-gazing
- voyeurism
- social media brainrot engagement bait
- healthy human conversation
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Bear Blog chooses not to include native comments. You can have them, but it's not "the thing to do" for very deliberate choices
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when you only have a little burst to share, the dopamine you get from engagement is enough to pull it out of you. No dopamine? No drools
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when you want your drivel to last longer, you prefer to own it
The benefits of Bear Blog:
- "the best camera is the one you have with you": write moar
- "less is better" for Forever Data: must lean into this
- some really thoughtful design choices, e.g., speed, and how tags work
