Moving across the fediverse

I've been blogging on and off for a little while now. Most recently, that's been on Micro.blog . I loved it at first. It's honestly a pretty cool concept: you have a single online hub from which you can make microblog posts (just like Mastodon or Bluesky), longform posts, upload pics and videos, etc. and sync everything across just about every social network that's relevant today. You can host your own blog wherever you want, or you can use Micro.blog's built-in Hugo setup.

It sounds good on paper but things sure seem to break a lot over there, and rather than going on a big shit-talking rant, I'll just leave it at that. I had a great time there for the last ~two years and I met some really cool people. But lately? I'm just feeling like it's time to move on.

So enough of that.

I don't really have a niche; it's more like a chaotic mix of links, notes and microblog posts. I've rambled a lot, and posted a lot of links to things I found interesting, but nothing that's really worth saving. I do like the idea of having a timeline I can go back and look at a few years down the road, but not enough to manually fix every broken image and everything else I fucked up when I tried migrating to WordPress. Probably not, anyway. I'm still on the fence, but I'm liking Leaflet a lot so far.

I like the idea of self-hosting, but I'm not that great at technical stuff. I just want a website where I can drop a post and not worry about rebuilding everything constantly, or screwing up a random line of code and trying to figure out where I went wrong all day.

On Leaflet I'm seeing a lot of link blogs, digital gardens and messes of different topics that don't follow any real niche -- and I mean that in the best possible way.

Blogs are supposed to be this scrapbook of all the things we want to share, and I don't want to be shoved into a box where I can only talk about retro gaming, or only post travel photos, or tech news.

This seems like as good a place as any, so here I am.