I’ve been manually entering twitter and facebook statuses into obsidian for a long while now, because it is meaningful to review them and reflect on the chasm between my past selves and current self.
These social networks are like a black hole, once we publish them we’re likely never to see them again unless we use specific tools. Some people think that is their purpose – we’re meant to be posting ephemeral content anyway. But I actually cherish these imprints of my selves.
I am thinking the same thing is happening for me on mastodon. I publish these short-form thoughts on it just because it is easy. Just because they are short-form doesn’t mean they are not important. But mastodon is even worse than the aforementioned networks when it comes to content retrieval. Thanks to someone’s generosity we can now browse our mastodon archives.
But I am tired of transplanting my content from these public networks to this website or obsidian so I can keep it for myself. It makes me want to publish everything on this website first.