Dave has written a couple of provocative posts stating 'why you stopped blogging' –spoiler alert, he blames social media.
Yes, I stopped 'blogging' and moved to Google+ for just over a year (I referred to it as social blogging) but that wasn't why I stopped posting on my own site.
I had become disillusioned with the process, with the quest for perfection, with making everything an essay. I tried to rein it back by posting "thoughts" (shorter posts) but needed to step away.
Moving to Google+ allowed a certain amount of freedom and reflection even if the #write365 project took its toll on me. I felt (and still feel) that I needed to see things from the outside to work out what I was going to do, what I needed to do; to realise what blogging really meant to me.
I made that mistake too, in my case posting on FB. (Google+ never clicked for me, nor I suspect with most of Google.) I've said it before on my blog, but ZuckNet is a lousy blogging platform.
I had to laugh at the irony of Dave Winer posting his blog post to FB as a PNG graphic. 🤣
Colin Walker replied:
Yeah, that was quite amusing.
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I've been there, trying to make my site work with others:
opengraph and Twitter cards
outsourced comments to Google+ and Medium
made RSS feed decisions just so they would play nicely with micro.blog
It didn't really sit well with me:
... whether what we do on our own sites should be dictated by the means of distribution.
I'm torn between thinking "it's a tough call" and "what am I playing at?"
Manton made a change to handling long posts which meant I no longer had to compromise but the stage was set, I decided to never again let an external service dictate how my own blog operated.
I will make things work with other services (the recent rssCloud implementation for example) but never to the detriment of my own site.
When I moved back to WordPress after hosting my blog on Micro.blog for about a year, I made a conscious effort to add as little extra weight as possible and keep things fairly lean. It worked too, so much so that disconnecting from Cloudflare for DNS/caching seems to have made it a tad faster!
I daresay I could probably hack even more off with a custom theme (or child theme) plus pulling out excess window-dressing in the full-site editor, but that's a project for the new year. 🤔
I made that mistake too, in my case posting on FB. (Google+ never clicked for me, nor I suspect with most of Google.) I've said it before on my blog, but ZuckNet is a lousy blogging platform.
I had to laugh at the irony of Dave Winer posting his blog post to FB as a PNG graphic. 🤣
Yeah, that was quite amusing.