First ATProto post by Sᴜɴʀɪsᴇ Oᴀᴛʜ

Here I am now! May this space glorify my Lord.

Aaron Ross Powell — Leaflet, Blogging, and How to Fix Social Media

I will use this space as an extension of my Twitter / X. Bluesky as a global instance really is not my community (I logged in to check just in case, and indeed I am confirmed in my suspicions), but I really like the technology!

I recall how Scott Scheper , a writing and marketing guru who I originally knew as the antinet guy , once said that if he made a digital zettelkasten it would be with Twitter. I took this to heart when I first read it, and used my Twitter as a kind of public zettelkasten of sorts.

I am still going to post on Twitter (now X), but I honestly am a little turned off by how many paid features and subscription nag-bloat is on that platform. Maybe it is in the interests of X to try to onboard more SuperGrok users, but it is not in my interest that they do so. This means searching for some alternatives.

I suspect that this workflow might work better for me than what I am already doing. Right now, I do something like jot down notes in Obsidian, post them as atomized tweets (well, X posts...xeets?), then eventually get around to writing Substack posts (mostly using ChatGPT to process everything). It works well for my purposes, and I like my Obsidian being the centerpiece of my own personal ecosystem. But it also makes it hard to seamlessly have my content available online in a clean nested format. Moreover, the ongoing spat between X and Substack makes it hard (at least for me, friction-wise) to straddle both platforms.

With this new AT Protocol-powered Leaflet blog, I can publish with the click of a button (without needing to worry about a lot of the somewhat cumbersome pre-publishing dialogs) and have my post automatically posted to a Twitter-like. I am a sucker for clean integrated interfaces; as a professional musician, the feel of the instrument matters a lot for the output (the music, the signal, whatever else you call it) that the artist is able to conjure up.

This blog is already making me feel a lot more creative than before! And so, stay tuned for more updates during my ongoing process of migration to this platform and archival of my old writings.