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As everyone of you may have already noticed, my desire to say stuff and ideally get reactions to it far exceeds the amount of thoughts worth saying that I have. This usually leads to live-posting whatever insignificant events are happening to me at a particular moment. This is why I used to be very active on Twitter and why I am currently on Bluesky as they both offer short, near-instant posts that are easy to chain together.

But what I am noticing here is some kind of positive feedback loop.

"What's the point of having a more versatile posting medium if I have nothing to say?"

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"What's the point of trying to formulate something more complex if the very medium I use for that makes it difficult?"

It is caused by the limits in the post length and/or the lack of a title and subtitles, and especially the inability to edit posts, and thus, it exists on every twitter-like, in groups in messengers, on Reddit which is a bit of an outlier format-wise... not here. And that will be difficult to replace.

Having just a little bit of common sense left, I know that, while I can technically achieve whatever post structure and complex formatting I want in my own blog, there is no chance that anyone will ever see it. Again, I rarely have anything to write longer than a tweet.

Disclaimer: I know this is an insane idea for many reasons, from obvious security concerns to simply how much of a niche toy for nerds it would have been. But it would have been funny.

On that note, HTML and CSS (even inline CSS) allow doing crazy cool things, which you have all definitely seen here. I've never been into CSS crime (skill issue), but it was fascinating to see what people could do with the fairly limited set of tools they were given.

Pretty sure no other social media allows custom styling, and given how well things worked out for Cohost, I doubt anyone will try to implement arbitrary styling anytime soon, but I hope to eventually see it again... outside the wilderness of the web, of course