i have this probably irrational anxiety that some pedantic nerd will misapprehend some unfinished thought of mine and he (invariably, he) will go all frothy and smash out his own Medium Article with screenshots of mine full of red circles about how bad and wrong and irresponsible i am for promulgating such incorrect statements
on fedi everything is plausibly a shitpost, so there’s no problem, and the barrier is delightfully low to just hocking out a big loogie of whatever mash of jumbled thoughts gets caught in my brain
that freedom to just post is incredibly beneficial. lets me jot down a note or a feeling that i may (or may not) return to later. without forcing me to set aside a whole block of time for Proper Revision, it lets me look back and see where my thoughts were
but occasionally, i want to serious business. i spent a bunch of time learning a thing and now i want to Publish An Article to share the thing (and cite your sources correctly when you refer to it in your own published research)
so what are the latent indicators of seriousness in web writing? how can i have a webbed site that speaks on occasion with an authoritative voice, but most times reads like scribbles in a notepad intended only for one’s self?
if you’re digital-gardening, how to you set apart your notes and unfinished thoughts from your solid-ground well-researched pages?
is it sentence case, grammar, spelling, and lack of colloquialisms?
is it the black background and unpolished stylesheet? (surely no, since my toots don’t have this)
is it even possible to purvey article and shitpost from the same magazine rack?
like a restaurant that offers fancy courses of french cuisine, but also cheetos and mountain dew from the same menu
tangentially related: Rach Smith’s digital garden: It’s okay for me to be wrong (2022)