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Those of you (whomst??) who keep up with this little gemlog of mine may have noticed that I've been making a daily post for about a month and a half now about all and sundry things, but nothing got posted yesterday—because I finally had nothing to post.
So, not that long ago, I downloaded my whole Twitter archive (I had been on that platform since May 2010), and went through my entire history (close to about 60k tweets) to preserve any particular gems, archive any high-quality memes, and the like. Part of that was going through and (while I was still on the platform and so could still see the replies of others) save all my tweetthreads and reformat them into posts for here. I've done the same for some of the more notable ones over on my weblog proper (The Digital Ambler), but there was a good deal that was either too short, too snippy, too snarky, or otherwise not refined enough for a formal weblog post. Still, I didn't want it to get lost in the tides of time and tech, so I combed through my whole Twitter history to find anything at all that I might save. As you might expect, it took a bit.
But now that I'm off Twitter for good (I deleted my entire post history and deactivated my account to full deletion the middle of last month), I've yet to do much else with this stuff. I still have my archive, and I've been picking at it here and there (although it's now more difficult in some ways given how the archive is formatted since my account itself and all the tweets are deleted), but in the meantime, while I'm still doing the bulk of my writing for my weblog, I decided to use this place as a scratchpad to save the various tweetthreads I've made over the years into loosely-formatted short-form (short for me, at any rate) posts.
I think that's where this place might shine for me. I've realized that I can only do but so much writing, so if I focus most of my writing on one place, other places don't get posted to as much, but I like the idea of using this place as a staging ground for stuff not formal or refined enough for my weblog but a little more serious than Bluesky microblogging or Discord chatting. Plus, of course, whatever else might be neat to put up here—after all, what gets a place attention is having attention-drawing things, so for Geminispace to get people interested, there's gotta be things of interest there to begin with! It's the whole "if you build it they will come" approach.