Micro.blog and POSSE

These past days I've been going down the rabbit hole of setting up a writing workflow that works for me. I've always wanted to write more and lately, I've been wanting to publish not for vanity's sake but for putting things out there and connecting with people. I really believe that connecting with "random" people on the internet is such a lovely way for human beings to connect. It's like a global-size version of a casual conversation on the street or public transport. It can change your day, it can even change your life.

I had read about POSSE before, but Molly White's latest article "POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world" was so good I don't think there's really anything to add to it. Except, maybe, how to actually do it yourself.

I'll be straight up honest: I don't know. But in not knowing I've been experimenting with a few tools and landed on a workflow that I think works well:

1. Get a custom domain (full disclosure: this is my Hover referral code but use whatever you want).
2. Open up a micro.blog account.
3. Connect all your socials to it: just use the ones you have, don't stress.
4. Write

I think that's basically it.

Currently I'm experimenting with:

1. Install the Obsidian plugin Micro.publish, get your micro.blog token to connect your account and... write!

Hope it works!

Epilogue

This is actually the first time I am publishing from Obsidian connected to micro.blog. So, if you're reading this, it means I've succeeded. Or it can also mean I failed a million times but eventually succeeded.

Which leads me to ask: Is there a difference?

Update

This post now lives on Ghost, which means that I updated my workflow to include Ghost as the primary means of publishing "long-form" content. We'll see how it goes. Tutorials are nothing but a specific state of affairs at a point in time.