Devlog.170725

It seems like many bloggers are always reconsidering how they approach blogging, both which platform they use, and how they reconsile long and short form posts. I’m currently posting anything <300 characters to Micro.blog and longer writings to this site. But I feel like this creates such a fractured view of my life for a reader. There are no thematic differences to the content on each blog, one was originally thought of as a replacement for Instagram and the other for essay type pieces, but I seem to be writing blogs of a similar style around the 300 character to 500 word zone which get split between the platforms.

Long-term I am very sure I will combine the two blogs into a single stream of writing with simple navigation to different post categories. Although I like Micro.blog conceptually, it still feels like I’m posting to a cloud platform similar to Instagram without the social connections of the major platforms. I am mainly posting for family and close friends first, and to chronical my life second, not to engage with a wider audience or community.

In the short term perhaps I can keep my day-to-day posts all to Micro.blog even if they push over the 300 character limit. And this site may be monthly life wrap-ups and researched writings.