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Pondering out loud: Sometimes I post things to Ye Olde Blogge, and sometimes I post them on Mastodon only. How do I decide which? It has been somewhat random, but if I examine my decisions, I think what I have been doing is:
- Linking to a long funny article, or to Actual Artwork: Blog.
- Someone's good shitpost: Blog if it is a banger for the ages; Mastodon boost if it is an ephemeral Sensible Chuckle.
- Actual News, that will still be interesting next year: Blog.
- Breaking Bullshit News, but funny, but that won't matter tomorrow: I often just boost someone else's Mastodon post, which does not show up on the blog. (E.g. "Republican says something dumb"). Unless it is, like, such a self-own that it amounts to a Quality Shitpost, then I'll re-blog it.
One reason for boosting others' posts is that I do not see the replies and sometimes that is for the best.
- My own "Sensible Chuckle" shitpost: sometimes I do these on the blog, and sometimes Mastodon only. The problem with the Mastodon ones is that sometimes I misjudge the popularity of these, and my throwaway one-liner gets a dozen angry replies from the Mastodon HOA or the anarcho-syndicalists, and my blog readers might enjoy skimming that pile-on.
Plus there's the whole "the blog functions as an archive" aspect of things.
So, I dunno. Maybe I should fall into a pattern of: never make top-level Mastodon posts, only post to the blog and mirror that to Mastodon.
Here's a good "where should this have gone" example.
"Always blog" is in the spirit of POSSE, but in my case there's not a lot of "E = everywhere" in that these days -- pretty much just Mastodon -- as I no longer use Facebook or Twitter. (I do still auto-post a screenshot-breadcrumb to Instagram, because I have a few friends who seem to use that the way I use a feed reader.)
