I'm coming across the problem of not knowing which blog to post to after I write something. I now have three separate blogs.1

I have a more "polished" blog that I sometimes post longer and more refined pieces to. And I've been experimenting with https://micro.blog, which allows for micro-blogging (hence the name) and cross-posting.2

I have this vision in my head that this blog is my personal one. It's about me and my thoughts, and it's lower stakes. It's mostly for me and for friends. And it's un-indexed on search engines.3 But there's this hesitancy and this nagging voice in the back of my head asking "But what if I write something really insightful and great, and it was posted to the wrong place?"

That hesitancy probably comes from connecting this more vulnerable blog to posts meant for a wider audience. Maybe that vulnerability leads to authenticity. I'm not entirely sure. I have not come to a conclusion on this yet.

I suppose I can also always merge posts into a single site through permalinks and fancy redirects too if I ever decide to. These are solvable issues.

  1. Seems to be a pretty common "issue" in the indie blogging community. We all are addicted to making too many blogs↩

  2. micro-blogging is definitely possible in Bear too. But I don't know that I actually plan on keeping up on micro-blogging. I'd like to flesh things out with a bit more substance. We'll see.↩

  3. For now at least. I don't know why but I sort of like the idea of this blog being hard to find. Also in theory that also means the LLM-crawlers can't train on my data, but I doubt those companies are honoring that commitment.↩