The second week of my personal email newsletter and shifting more of my social sharing to my domain. Hope you do the same for yours so I can subscribe to your email newsletter. https://buttondown.com/kin-lane/archive/a-week-of-being-kin-lane-february-3rd-2024/
@kin I blog using WordPress and the subscriptions feature basically turns each new blog post into an email newsletter. But folks have to subscribe to get it.
Even with a little over 300 subscribers, it's not worth creating a special document manually.
@mlanger Make sense. I personally find value in having to reach beyond my personal blog and aggregate what I ate, books I am reading, and other things I didn't blog about.
@kin That's what my journal is for, and I keep that private.
Seriously: how many people are really interested in what we ate? Even I'm not interested enough to write it down.
If you have a following of people who care about you and what you're up to, this is great. I'm not fooling myself: no one really gives a shit about me and I'm OK with that. The blog is to practice writing and have something to look back on when I can't remember. I've got 21 years of entries so far.
@mlanger My blog is just for me. My newsletter is just targeting the close friends and family I have on Facebook. The search on my personal and profession blog is used daily to build on my own work. Even the food. I expect nobody else to care, but for me it has immense value on my writing and creative outlet.
@mlanger Additionally, maintaining and defending my personal domain in an online web matters to my digital self and my career. I don't expect others to always understand, but it is important to me.
@kin Hey, I bought and use MariaLanger.com for a reason. I host my own WordPress sites; I don't use WordPress.com. You're preaching to the choir.
I'm not on any social media except this and all of my toots automatically delete after a year. I'm not interested in building content on someone else's site. The only exception would be YouTube and that's because I needed a place to host my videos and they pay me.
@mlanger Just mean your feelings on that control you speak of. If you feel you have the same over email in your domain as you do mastodon? I don't run my own email servers in my domain, but I run. my own mastodon servers. So I am just curious how others view.
@kin I have no control over Mastodon and I understand that. That's one of the reasons my toots disappear after a year.
@mlanger Makes sense. Thanks for sharing. Just curious how people see their domain.
@kin Not sure what you mean. I have total control over all of my email accounts except one with Apple. If I have something to say that can't go public, I don't put it here or in email. It's word of mouth or nothing. These days are getting too scary.