The thing about traditional blogging is that like, in the world we have now where most people themselves don't have blogs, it feels too much like shouting into the void and one gets very little acknowledgement for doing it. Cohost was the perfect mix of social encouragement making me write longer form things vs not being a hellpit of an attention economy.
this is basically it; part of the reason I share things I find interesting is the existence of people to share it with. feels like there are fewer and fewer places to do that
maybe this is just the result of 15 years' worth of conditioning of sharing things online, but it does feel worth doing
In principle, RSS/Atom feed plus blog comments helps solves this, but...
- I don't have comments on my blog by design. So discussion has to take place off-blog where ppl congregate.
- I've no indication that ppl actually use my Atom feed.
- Deploying a blog post is more time than writing long-form writing in Cohost. So I want to do it less often. Guess I'll have to get over the revulsion of having to deploy LOL...
