What's the difference between blogging and a longer social post?

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 08:53:53 -0800

There’s a certain lack of permanence to social media posts – in my mind, anyway.

In some cases that’s a feature, but due to the ease of writing in this medium, it’s so easy to just open an app window, write a few lines and hit send. I haven’t published a “real” blog post in months.

I’ve written before about how I would create blog posts more often if doing it was as easy as creating a social post. I even have a script that makes it easy-ish to rsync my Hugo blog, but the Fediverse has such great tools (like Tusky, Semaphore and the new Elk.

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What's the difference between blogging and a longer social post?