When I have recommended you, people have told me “I love his Vietnam stuff [or the history stuff] but I don’t want the politics”
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Replying to @jaspergregory
I read the front page idly when wiped out. I’ve basically never posted there.
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Replying to @Meaningness @jaspergregory
Best regarded as a tech, not a place, I think: different subreddits are very different, based on mod behavior and local subculture.
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Politics there gets really echochamberry. The mecanism would work for history, but i don't know if the use base is there
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Replying to @jaspergregory
Twitter’s main function has become culture-warring, it seems. So maybe best to use it for that!
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Replying to @Meaningness
Sad but true. This leaves the question of where to post the historical stuff? Wordpess just feels so old fashioned
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Replying to @jaspergregory
Different twitter account would work well for me!
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My problem with wordpress is that it tugs in the direction of writing a near-publication-quality essay. Can’t be off-hand there.
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Exactly, and i used to get pulled into endless comment threads
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I recently explicitly announced that I was no longer responding to blog comments by default. Seems to be working so far.
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Replying to @Meaningness
I might set something up later today. It would be nice to have a place to deconstruct stuff.
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Replying to @jaspergregory
You could be open about the two accounts being the same person, so “retweeting in wrong alt” would not be a big problem
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