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  "description": "Thinking more about why and where I'm putting my thoughts and what I should be spending my online time on.\n",
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  "publishedAt": "2024-08-07T16:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "I'm deciding to make more of my content more \"ephemeral\"; discarding months (if not years) of information I've posted\nthere. I have backups from my Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts and I've been wrestling on how to pull them into\nmy current site (or [whatever comes next][1]). This is going to force me to rely on my site to be my place where\nthe things I _want_ to speak about should be coming from. Bookwyrm is a bit of an odd exception and I think it's because\nit exists in a topical experience; that being book tracking and journaling of the sort. Mastodon works _hard_ to be the\nsoft-core clone of Twitter.\n\nWhat 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\nBlueSky in a [syndicating fashion][4]. Ideally, I'll make a means of re-engaging those landscapes with _way_ more agency\nthan I currently do (something I'll develop as I go and write about here). One method to help me encourage writing is to\navoid asking prompts into the Fediverse and use that as something to guide my own writing. Some things I want to write\nwould include the following:\n\n Figuring out how to get Librecast wrapped in Rust,\n Computing a number of people who are subscribed to my RSS feeds,\n Writing about documenting my home lab's mesh with Ansible,\n Moving my commentary on links to my site as [quoted bookmarks][5]\n\nThere's a small tinge of me moving _back_ to the IndieWeb anchoring I have. But I have different (or more focused) goals\nin 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\ntime not working for anyone, I'm hoping to spend it working on things that are important to me and potentially neglected\nelsewhere. Hoping for the best!\n\n[1]: /projects/shock\n[2]: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-lyft-founders-game-plan-for-beating-uber-were-woke-and-a-better-boyfriend-2017-3\n[3]: https://jalopnik.com/lyft-is-not-a-better-boyfriend-1793772573\n[4]: https://indieweb.org/POSSE\n[5]: https://indieweb.org/bookmark",
  "title": "Slowly Pulling out from the Fediverse"
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