Torn between platforms and software. On the one hand I would love to try out using bookwyrm, but then again I have a website (and this sideblog, too), so I don’t feel like further diversifying or spreading out.

I also have quite a bunch of social media accounts, so I might as well use those for the bookwyrm thing, yeah?

I want to take some time figuring out which hashtags are being used on tumblr for what exactly, so that I can use these, instead of coming up with my own, no matter how salient I find them.

I am also torn about how much of a service I want to provide, because I think that the real service, that of value, is the one where I simply do what I do, and write about it.

The other type, the one I am finally ready to let go of, is to think of everything I do as marketing.

Because, honestly, I can’t do marketing. Will not. Do not want.

So I won’t.

In short: analyze hashtags, use hashtags, become part of the community. Because that is all there is: the tribe and how I relate to it.

Source: My after‑hours blog on Tumblr Code & Canvas