I made a note: Social Media Posting post in the middle of the night:
I have noticed a distinct decline in interactions on Mastodon recently, the last and only social media platform I still use….
and after some feed back and thought I decided I would do a Post:
To post here or Mastodon
I am now leaning towards posting Notes on here and then linking them over onto my Mastodon. This will allow me more control and I will have them in a nice list and searchable within this Blog.
I think I will still post images, my renders and photographs, directly to Mastodon. This will help keep the bandwidth down on this site and all followers on there to see them more easily Knowing my fickle nature I will change my mind and post here too, but for now it is a plan.
In the long term it is my intention to have some form of portfolio on here, even it is just a series of posts indexed in the Tags section of this blog. I haven’t found a suitable portfolio for the theme I am using so, that’s looking likely. I don’t like posting images over on the Mastodon server either, for the same reasons I mentioned with the notes posting.
I like Mastodon, but I also like my Blog, and want to become less dependant on third party sites for posting. I would still need a window on the Web and Mastodon is my preferred porthole. One day I hope to set up my own instance, as much for a challenge as for any other reason, I know a few who have done it and it appeals to me, perhaps in a masochistic way.
Anyway to sum up I am going to post Notes from here to Mastodon whilst still posting directly there where it feels more practical or efficient. I will continue posting images directly there for now, but that may change.
To wrap up tangled web I am weaving here is a little render of a Torus Knot I made earlier this month:
