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social platforms

~jr

i often find myself switching platforms because i don't feel like any of them are a perfect fit. i've even attempted to bring all of the work onto myself, building personal social platforms but to no avail. i've realized the solution is extremely simple yet almost no platform can provide that. hopefully the pub can do that for me. :)

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~starbreaker wrote (thread):

I like having my own website with a blog, but if I want to share my status I think a "now page" is sufficient.

"about now pages"

This one is mine.

my "now" page

As you can see, it doesn't take much.

~inquiry wrote (thread):

To me platforms seem all but irrelevant relative to quantity of quality people per platform capita.

This Pub isn't much of a platform, yet I stop by all the time knowing that if there's something new, it'll all but certainly be worth reading.

(He says, wincing a bit over having used "all but" in consecutive sentence....)

~tffb wrote (thread):

~jr, hi!

I feel the same. I used to want to be able to have a one-off status site, like Twitter, but smaller, more simplistic, and self-hosted. I tried building something akin to that, but I gave up the project.

After a while, I lost the "urge", the need, to leave any type of update online, other than a response via IRC chat, or e-mail, or blog "comment" response (such as here on M.p).

I think the concept (turned-reality) of having a status/microblog..."thing" in one's life was/is likely only pertinent to site that needs updates, data, engagement, etc. Outside of the monetized social media sites, they (small updates) serve very little purpose.

Nevertheless, good luck on what you find, if anything, and all the best! :)