Slowly Pulling out from the Fediverse

I'm deciding to make more of my content more "ephemeral"; discarding months (if not years) of information I've posted there. I have backups from my Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts and I've been wrestling on how to pull them into my current site (or whatever comes next). This is going to force me to rely on my site to be my place where the things I want to speak about should be coming from. Bookwyrm is a bit of an odd exception and I think it's because it exists in a topical experience; that being book tracking and journaling of the sort. Mastodon works hard to be the soft-core clone of Twitter.

What I'm choosing to do is ramp up my blogging on my website. I'll link to it from my Mastodon account and similarly from BlueSky in a syndicating fashion. Ideally, I'll make a means of re-engaging those landscapes with way more agency than I currently do (something I'll develop as I go and write about here). One method to help me encourage writing is to avoid asking prompts into the Fediverse and use that as something to guide my own writing. Some things I want to write would include the following:

Figuring out how to get Librecast wrapped in Rust, Computing a number of people who are subscribed to my RSS feeds, Writing about documenting my home lab's mesh with Ansible, Moving my commentary on links to my site as quoted bookmarks

There's a small tinge of me moving back to the IndieWeb anchoring I have. But I have different (or more focused) goals in making things that work for people and not just myself. We'll see how that plays out over time. As I have a lot of time not working for anyone, I'm hoping to spend it working on things that are important to me and potentially neglected elsewhere. Hoping for the best!