Content Types on Spockify
Blarghs — Long form writing. A blog, though I've always despised the term (hence the name). I wanted a place to practice writing without that content sitting on some corporate server. Substack and Medium exist, sure. But ownership matters. What I definitely did not want were comments or feedback loops. Engagement is probably the worst cancer on the modern web, and the most insidious cancer on modern thought.
The Photomat — A place to stick a picture and copy a link to share in Discord, IRC, or email. Imgur without the ads. Instagram without the feedback loop and the sociopathic owner. I tried a self-hosted solution tied to the Fediverse once. Like almost everything associated with the Fediverse, it kind of sucked.
Doogies — Short, two-to-three sentence musings. I didn't want a microblog, because look what that medium became: long form content shoved into a dozen short form boxes, pictures of text that should have been blog posts. If you have something to say and can't do it in 140 characters, post it somewhere else.
Lister — An organizational tool, mostly private, built to help me plan this site and other projects. Can be made public when it makes sense.
Notes & Outlines (coming soon) — Private content types for organizing thoughts that can eventually be folded into public pieces. Same philosophy: build the container to fit the content, not the other way around.