What should I post here? What should I post there?
I’m struggling to find a balance that I like. My deepest self says post everything here, right on my own personal website. As broken and beautiful as it is (I’m constantly fiddling lately, sorry).
But if I do that should I take the time to share the same posts across some or all of the services I’m currently signed up for? Unfortunately, POSSE just isn’t for me. So that isn’t the answer.
There are two factors at play; friction and reach.
The friction (or, amount of work and time) to publish can be a good thing and a bad thing. It is good because it may slow me down just enough to not publish too much drivel. Then again, drivel can be fun. At least for me, publishing something silly online is fun. Publishing on my website has much more friction than quickly tapping out a toot.
Reach (and with it, engagement) are important too because I sometimes want feedback or replies from other humans. Because I don’t have comments on my blog I do not get many replies when I publish here. The replies I do get, however, are usually awesome and via email. I love it.
Why is this a struggle? No one else cares. Why do I care? Why do I even spend any time thinking about it? Why am I now writing about it? Should I delete this post?
I’m publishing it here on my blog and not sharing it anywhere else.