It's been a year since I created this feed and started posting mainly on my website. Since then, I've:

• Used a shorter domain to redirect to my website domain.
• Created VS Code snippets to simplify metadata tagging.
• Used github.dev as the main interface for authoring and editing posts. For longer posts, I use VS Code locally but for these smaller microblog-style posts, github.dev makes it really easy.
• Syndicated posts to Twitter and Mastodon.
• Created a response feed for interactions like replies, reshares (repost), and likes (favorites) with support for sending Webmentions.
• Created RSS feeds for each of my feeds.

It hasn't happened overnight. Instead, it's been the result of small incremental efforts over time.

Overall, I don't think I've posted any more or less than I do on other platforms.

What I have enjoyed the most though has been:

• Learning.
• Building the tools and processes to author and share content.
• Owning my content. My website acts as the single source of truth.
• Not requiring others to have or create accounts on individual platforms to access content.
• Choosing how I author content. I'm sure this post is way over the 280 character limit and if there's a typo, I can just edit the post and republish the website 🙂

Going forward, I plan to:

• Update RSS feeds to include post content, not just link to the post.
• Accept Webmentions. I'm about halfway done with the main parts of my implementation.
• Implement tags for easier discoverability / search.
• Consolidate metadata for posts (articles, microblogs, responses).