What I’m learning from writing notes and syndicating it to social networks is that because it takes a bunch more time to do, I’ve found myself writing longer and longer notes.

Here’s what this process currently looks like:

1. I compose a new note on my website with whatever I want to post, and save it. This includes:
   1. The title
   2. If I’m replying to someone, link to the post I’m responding to
   3. The content
   4. Images if needed
   5. Tags
2. I create a shortlink that can be shared on the social network.
   1. A title (this is internal to the CMS and only for organisation)
   2. Link to the note
   3. A URL slug
3. I syndicate the post across to the social networks I want, including the backlink to my published note on my site
   1. For ActivityPub, I can copy the content across with minimal changes since I have an extremely high character limit, and it supports Markdown so it’s usually one and done.
   2. For others with a character limit (like bsky), I copy as much of the content as I can, including tags, then truncate the rest with the link back to the original.
4. I then edit my note to link to all the syndicated copies.

So yes, it’s a lot of work but it seems that by doing that I force myself to think a bit more before I write or reply to a post, which is better for those kinds of things.

At other times I just wanna write a quick reply so it’s less good at doing that lmao

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