Bye, bye, Bear Blog! 8 ▲ Software, Simplicity, Sustainability and Stuff 58 days ago · Life · hide · 2 comments Almost a year ago, I decided to give blogging a try. I thoroughly enjoyed researching and writing my posts (I put a lot of effort into them), but seeing how little traction my writings got was usually disappointing. My best-appreciated blog post was very short; I suspect that was part of its appeal. What I consider to be my best post was very niche, so I understand why it didn't get many upvotes. After that one, though, I tried to write about things that I expected to be appealing to a larger audience, but I always seemed to fail to reach them. I am either interested in things that other people don't care about, or I haven't figured out how to make those things interesting to them. Either way: life is finite, and you shouldn't spend much time on things that don't have a decent return on investment. As I wrote, I enjoyed the researching and writing, but if the enjoyment I get from those is the entire return, I might as well store my writings in an Obsidian vault and save myself the… Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here. unattributed 𓂃✍︎ @unattributed@gotosocial.social 58 days ago [-] Have you considered that writing publicly for the sake of writing is all that it needs to be? Instead of trying to write for an audience, let the audience find you… You have an opportunity of achieving that using Bear, WriteFreely, or one of the other IndieWeb sites.IMO — I've been doing some reading on this topic, and most people give up on posting within eighteen months because they don't feel they are accomplishing anything. The reality is, it can take years honing your craft, finding your voice and letting the audience find you. Retreating to keeping your work in an Obsidian vault will guarantee you won't find an audience.I think you have more of an audience than you might appreciate. I found your article on the Bubbles front page six hours after it was posted. That's actually a decent showing. I've had posts fall off the front page within two or three hours of posting them.I'd keep going if I were you. Just don't put pressure on yourself. Write whatever you want, and sooner or later something will stick.(FWIW — my most successful article to date was a silly response to someone else's post. I'm still stunned it went as far as it did. And, the post I am most proud of doesn't have ten percent of the views compared to my most viewed piece. This is just how it happens.) Jim Grey @jimgrey@mastodon.social 55 days ago [-] It takes a minute to build an audience.
