I remain incapable of consolidating my blogs, social media, etc.
I’m realizing that I have three types of blog posts, “macro”, “micro”, and “nano”.
Normal long-form posts are “macro” posts. Shorter posts or images with commentary are “micro” posts. Then there are the little snippets and random thoughts I can’t help blurting out for some reason. Those are “nano” posts.
I could put them all at baty.net and be done with it, but I have yet to find a way to do this using WordPress (or Hugo, for that matter). I never like the way themes render all three types.
I thought I could do macro posts at baty.net and the rest at jack.micro.blog, but for some reason, I hesitate to post my little nonsense thoughts there because it feels weird having them saved as “real” blog posts. I can’t explain it, but those little “nano” posts make more sense to me on an actual social network like Mastodon.
This morning, I spun up a new Mastodon instance as my “official” social media presence. I wanted my own domain, and baty.social is as good as any. It’s eponymous, short, and I’d already paid for it a few months ago. So now I’m posting the nano posts at @jack@baty.social.
Micro.blog can act as an account on the Fediverse, but I think I prefer using Mastodon for that.
I’m not sure that there’s a meaningful difference between micro and nano posts, so this is an experiment. If it continues to feel right, great. If not, I’ll try something else.
I’ve seen several tags on your blog posts (blogging, writing, software, meta). Is there any place I can see all of your tags? It would be an interesting snapshot of your interests
Good question! I just added a page with a tag cloud at https://baty.net/tags. Let me know if that helps.
Er, I forgot that I also show the tag could in the site’s sidebar, so it’s a little redundant, sorry. Maybe there’s a better way to display them. I’ll find out.
FWIW, I use micro.blog for all of this, and my balance on the “nano” being “not real” is simple— I exclude any post without a title from the Archive. They appear on my front page, and you can go through the index page by page, but mostly, the really short stuff effectively “vanishes” while still having a stable URL on my own site, sent elsewhere as appropriate.
That’s just to say that I had the same feeling, and I found that my issue was more design than function or where the data lives.
Thanks for the details! You may be right about it being as much a design issue as anything else. The other crucial difference for me is the “say vs share” distinction, which is why I still have my daily blog that _doesn’t_ get cross-posted anywhere.