Why blog in a mastodon account??

I have tried to redact this in different ways, with different lengths and talking about different topics, but I'll just follow my own philosophy: Keep it simple stupid!.

I have tried to create a #knowledge base multiple times and in many ways: a git repo, notion, a wiki with gollum, joplin, a blog, a personal web page, a git repo again, a digital garden, a web page and a digital garden. But I never went really far with any of those.

But to the surprise of no one, by reducing the complexity of the stuff I do, I could stick to them more easily.

On another front, a lesson learned from my experience #journaling is that I value (or to some extent need) flexibility to do stuff how I feel in the moment and do them when I feel like doing them. My #adhd brain doesn't like those "we'll do this later with a cup of coffee and some nice music", no, it wants to do it when he wants to. And why fight that?? Why go against the current?? It takes less energy and time to do it now and get it out of my mind than bug me forever until I don't want to do it anymore.

So I started asking: "do I really want to do this?", and if the answer is yes, then: "how can I do this?".

So in relation to knowledge I come to these conclusions:

• I want to store knowledge in a searchable way.
• I need to write things by hand to get them out of my head.
• I want to share my thoughts with the world.
• I need to do the above with flexibility and the least friction possible.

For that I always carry a notebook that I like to call "my thoughts journal", for the searchable part I'm developing a little index system app, and to share my thoughts there is nothing easier than social media.

This could seem like something really obvious for everyone, but I never really engaged with social media before, something always pushed me away while the social needs of having one and the algorithms pushed me back in. So I never really got the feeling of "sharing a tweet" for example.

But mastodon feels different, it actually feels like a community, it doesn't have an algorithm trying to drag me in, but I continue to come back willingly, and when I want to. It kinda reminds me of how Tumblr used to be here in Latam before it was sold to I don't remember who: a place where people can share whatever they like openly and where people interacted with one another more truthfully.

As a little side note, I always found it funny you could really tell a person who came from outside Tumblr, and tried to use it as the others mainstream social media. If they didn't adapt, they ended up leaving shortly.

And for the technical side, Mastodon already covers most of what a blog needs: post, reactions, notifications, sharing, media, comments, reachability. I just needed to set up a little fedi server to have a little more room with the character limit. I can open in whatever client I have available and be done with it.

I don't intend these posts to be thorough and well formatted, because I'm not, I'm messy, I'm dispersed and my thoughts move at a speed I can't always follow, but why fight that? Better try to get the most out of it how I can and how I'm more comfortable with :3