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To RSS subscribers of this microblog, a reminder that I’ve decided to stop posting here. If you’d like to continue to hear from me, please point your reader to the RSS feeds of my two longform blogs:

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Hi everyone, I’ve decided to stop posting on this microblog. This means I won’t have direct posts on Micro.blog or Mastodon anymore, over and above my active absence on traditional socials. I’ll post only on my space blog and my personal blog Thought Brew going forward.

Why? Here’s what I told a friend on the topic:

I’m just not into shortform. It’s a trap. It gives the illusion of satisfaction and instant gratification of posting something to the whole wide Web when in reality I had more nuance to express if the interface didn’t limit me.

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