“micro.blog hews so close to things I think I would really like to exist somewhere in a less elaborate manner. I appreciate the way you can start with what feels like a short-form social-media-style post and end up tipping over into a whole blog entry without having to switch context. What’d be fine, honestly, would be ‘Mastodon except your Markdown works and you can kinda blog in there, not just toot.’ Then sometimes it’d be a pithy little comment, other times it’d be a screed, and you could get kicked out of your instance because a lot of words is violent or whatever.”

… then Luke suggested atproto as a thing to look at, so I did. Specifically I checked out Whitewind and Leaflet, which are ways to do longform over atproto. And that sort of led me to the first thing I get about atproto, which is the way identity works among all these services, namely that I am “me” on all of them.

I originally thought that was how the Fediverse was supposed to work. I don’t know why. Well, probably because that’s how I thought it should work: I just want to be me wherever I am. I guess I heard “fedi” and thought “federated identity.”

I get that there are nuances, but just dipping in on Whitewind, Leaflet, BookHive, and Frontpage and seeing that I could be me on each of those Appviews is enough to intrigue me. So I want to learn more.

One bummer on Whitewind: The front page was dominated by someone’s *claw posting its “thoughts.”

Revolting.