I started this note in September. Almost a month has passed since I started thinking about this.

The original impetus for this idea was because Ghost had decided to build Activitypub support. This website is built on Ghost, and as I wrote then, when it was announced:

I would love to make this the centre of my online existence. I would love to create my identity here. An identity I own. An identity I can control. 
I would love to post here once, and have it show at different places.
I would love for this to be the place from where I can interact with people.

Since then, I came across Dave and Scripting News, their blog on the web. And this idea of textcasting, with the stated goal of:

Interop between social media apps based on the features writers need.

I still want the same things.

A place of my own

This is the primary thing or motivation that I have. I want to own my content. Whatever I write, I want it to be present on my website. Whether its a short post, a blog, an essay, a story or a poem. I want it to reside on my website.

I want interop, so that whatever I write here, is visible on other social media platforms (Threads, Mastodon, whatever.)

How I write

This has changed, from when I initially thought about it. My initial vision was being able to write on Mastodon, for example, and that showing up on my website. It is possible to add your Mastodon feed using something like Emfed.

But as I wrote above, I want whatever I write to begin its life on my website. I sometime do write on my phone, but those are mostly quick notes, or ideas. I can wait, to be back on my computer to write the thing. Or use Ghost on the web to publish the thing.

On Scripting News, there is one meta post for the date and then inside of that, several smaller one paragraph posts.

What I want is to be able to tag posts that should get posted to Mastodon, etc. Posts that don't need to have a headline. I would love to have basic style (bold and italic).

And I want to write in Markdown. Ghost uses it, as does Obsidian, where I do most of my writing anyway.

Talk to the world

Finally, I want to be able to interact with comments, etc. that people make on the post across the Fediverse through my website.