@jsonbecker For all the time I spend worrying about my sites and tweaking them, with all the tools we add to subscribe to JSON, RSS, links to social accounts, etc., I sure don’t think people actually spend any time over there on my actual blog.

I guess the point of all this cross-posting and federation stuff is that no one has to spend any time there, even if they are interested in the posts.

And why would they, I guess? There is no shortage of thoughts out there. Gone are the days of our teens and early 20s when we’d post to Live Journal or MySpace when everyone was fawning over the daily discoveries of interesting, far-off people. Now that we all have mortgages and kids and most eyeballs are on 30 second TikTok videos and Instagram celebrities, no one cares.