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>On the other hand, if I tweet or post on my own personal blog, then I'm not making any assertions that my writing is valuable. It's entirely up to other people
by mrtesthah 5y ago
>On the other hand, if I tweet or post on my own personal blog, then I'm not making any assertions that my writing is valuable. It's entirely up to other people to choose whether to follow me or unfollow me depending on whether they get any value out of it. This makes me feel much more comfortable posting random thoughts.
If all you wanted to do was write down your random thoughts and truly didn't need for anyone else to see them, then you could journal them on a piece of paper instead.
- Retric 5y agoPicture a world where your the only user of twitter. Posting your personal thoughts would still enables a timeline and searchable permanent recording of your thoughts that’s accessible on any device more or less forever. Being public means you can still access old posts even if you get locked out of your account.
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoI've been "sending myself messages" long before Telegram officially acknowledged it as a feature. It's great. I tag every "message" with its context. But I do copy everything to local, backed-up storage. What I haven't done yet is make it public. I expect this to be easy as I'm a full-stack dev with a custom CMS already. There's two obstacles to that happening, however: 1) I don't believe anyone cares (yet), and 2) I'd need to check literally the entire archive for anything I don't want to publish, because I occasionally paste secrets there.
- Spivak 5y agoThis is what I use IG for and it's pretty great. I basically just use my profile as a timeline of fun things I did. I can also point family at it for general life updates in-between major holidays.