Re: Twitter
Summary
• a place where my shitposts started conversations (or at least joke threads), and where I could participate in conversations (or at least joke threads) on other people’s shitposts • a comments section for my blog that wasn’t on my blog, and a comments section for others’ blogs even if they don’t have one on their blog • a place to learn about other cool people and projects through the people I already know, and a place for other people to learn about me and my projects through the people they already know I want a place for shitposts and other ephemera, so maybe I’ll start a microblog. I don’t want to check all over the place for other peoples’ shitposts, but maybe enough of them will be ActivityPub or newsfeeded that I can keep track of them. This blog (at the time of this writing) uses a forked old version of Jekyll, but the “conversation” part of ActivityPub means a static generator won’t cut it. Similarly, my brain wants to turn to a web module like WordPress that I can just put on my existing website, like I did with gitweb…but ActivityPub is a “push” model, like email, and that doesn’t scale well if I eventually get as many followers as I did on Twitter. There was originally going to be more to this post, about leaving Facebook first, about my unrelated temporary Twitter hiatus becoming permanent.