Just noticed that I am featured on bubbles, and that shit slaps! Discoverability is the biggest problem in blogging today, and while I may have managed to get a decent RSS feed, I still continually struggle with finding new blogs. Bubbles works as a syndicator with the wide goal of sharing active, non-corporatized, indie blogs.
The problem: Not enough people are using it, most posts have zero votes. If you have somehow managed to find this post, get out there and bubble (unless you found this on bubbles I guess...)
You can follow blogs to create your own curated feed, use hot to find popular posts and (most importantly!) browse new to find new posts to enjoy. Remember to bubble for the next guy!
Ps. Bye bye microposts, say hello to my scrapboard. Didn't have enough to say in my microposts that I couldn't just write in a full blogpost
You know the feeling of writing (or creating) something, and it's just... not that good?
Here you are, after just having put down a decent amount of effort, and it's not as thoughtful as you hoped it would be. Perhaps it's just better not post this publically, leave it uncreated.
I want you to note a dissonance here. Where you judge your work based on the amount of effort you have put in, is completely different from a reader. You have just spent time and active effort for a while, but the reader won't have to put down that effort. I am a chronic skimmer, I can only read a couple of words before my eyes start to wander of, looking for keywords to figure out the meaning instead of actually reading.
The reader (me) will only have to at most read it, and at least skim through it. We won't judge you on the quality of your work based on how much effort you put in, only on how valueable it is against to how much effort it was to consume — and it's trivial to consume content. Only when you have created something that will leave me more unhappy, than before I saw it, you should perhaps avoid posting it. Like AI slop :)