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Microblogging was designed to be ephemeral purely out of capitalist interests. We need a more permanent solution to share it thoughts, and link people to them.

I see the same points shared in here over and over. Whether they're about racism, or open source, or walled gardens, or capitalism, people keep repeating them because this place has no capability for history.

We're trying to decide the future of the internet but it's as if we had lost the ability to write. Without a permanent medium, there is no history. We're days away from becoming the online version of Göbekli Tepe.

I recall reading an old cyberpunk comic about a city where they replaced dates with "N years ago", and this was by design. Without history, people can easily lose their collective identity, which can easily be replaced by the current day's fads. This is what happened to Twitter. A ban and boom, all your post history is gone. And here we inherit the design faults of that platform. We are writing on the sand, on the dunes of short-lived server caches.

We need to claim our voices back and have permanent, calendared, searchable places to share our written thoughts. Even with activityPub, even with democratized moderation protocols, microblogging won't cut it.

We need to resurrect the blog.

#BringBackTheBlogs