Macroblogging

A-ha!
For a long time, Twitter has been my preferred social media platform, but like a lot of people, my relationship with the site became complicated once Elon Musk took over. Not only do I not much like the guy; he also tinkered with (or threatened to tinker with) the site until I started thinking seriously about moving to a different platform. A tried a few and the one that stuck the most was Bluesky.
I've talked about this quite a bit on After Lunch, but I've never been able to fully migrate to Bluesky. It doesn't yet have all the features that I need so that I can customize and curate my experience. For all of Twitter's flaws, it allows me to sort my favorite accounts into lists so that I only see what I want from people I trust.
Using both sites, I knew that I didn't want to just cross-post the same stuff on each. I don't want to identify myself as a 'content creator.' Down that road (at least for me) lies an emphasis on statistics and analysis that I'm not interested in. The beautiful thing about being an amateur in all of my creative endeavors is that I get to make or share whatever interests me without having to worry about an audience. I don't use both Twitter and Bluesky to increase my reach. I use them both because they each have advantages that the other doesn't. 
So I've been in the same kind of dilemma on those sites that I've been in with this blog. What do I post where? And why? The answers to those questions have changed constantly since I started using Bluesky, but I think I'm close to figuring it out.
I don't remember how, but I was recently reminded of the term 'microblogging' in relation to platforms like Twitter and Bluesky. That helped me understand how I want to think about those places. Rather than a marketing tool or even just a place to chat with my friends, they're also a form of blogging. My homepage on both sites is a kind of blog where I can express thoughts, but also collect art that I like or post links to stories that I think are interesting. I just have to do it really briefly, because that's how those sites work.
Currently, I'm more interested in microblogging on Twitter than on Bluesky. Like I said, Twitter has a lot more function to it at the moment. Bluesky's main advantage is that some of my friends only use that platform, so I have to at least check in there if I want to stay in touch with them. But interacting with them doesn't mean that I also have to blog there.
The pleasant irony is that figuring that out has also clarified what to do with this site. Since it's all blogging (which is essentially digital scrapbooking), all I have to do when I want to talk about something is decide how much space I need to do that. Most of the time, a quick post or link on Twitter will be fine. But occasionally, like with this post, I'll need more space to think and unpack. And that's what this place is for.
This seems like a 'no duh' revelation now that I've arrived at it, but that's often how my brain works. The answer is right there, but I'm so caught in a different way of thinking that I can't see it until I trip on it. In this case, I've long thought of this blog as a marketing tool or a place for content creation. I got tired of doing that a long time ago, so I started using it only to advertise my podcasts. Then I got tired of even that and stopped using it altogether. 
Seeing it as a place to collect random thoughts that won't fit on Twitter (even just seeing it as connected in function to Twitter) is a purpose that I can clearly envision and make use of.