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A quick idea.

You can now pretty much write a blog on Mastodon.

I am doing such a thing here now. 

This site is emanating from a WordPress site, on a server I run myself.

But I've also installed the plugin that cross-posts to Masto via ActivityPub. I have no idea how it works, but I don't have to. My writing magically appears on both the web and Mastodon at the same time. 

And the features it has on Masto are good enough to call it blogging.

I have the ability to do simple styling. I can link from a word to another page, the most basic feature of blogging and the web. We dreamed about how we'd use this in the early days of the web, and now it's rare that we type into a place where you can. But blogs still love links! And somehow they get through the usual filters and the links show up in Mastodon via ActivityPub. Woohoo! 

Of course we want more! But this is a decent place to start.

So let's think about it and if you have a Blog of Mastodon, send me a link, I want to read it. 

PS: If you can read this on Threads please let me know! 🙂

PPS: And the cool thing about the Blogs of Mastodon is you can't do it on Bluesky, yet. But we hope they will support this too.