For longer posts it's hard to argue that any social media with a restricted number of characters per post is a good fit (all the arguments are other features that may be missing in blogs, not arguments against having a cohesive post that doesn't spread across multiple messages). OP suggested a blog post, but it could've been solved by creating support to larger posts as well. I don't think it's a bad debate to have, even if repeatedly, that's how things end up changing.
> For longer posts it's hard to argue that any social media with a restricted number of characters per post is a good fit.
Welll...
> (all the arguments are other features that may be missing in blogs, not arguments against having a cohesive post that doesn't spread across multiple messages)
Ok that's a pretty big category of exclusions. I can maybe picture a blog which is actually a number of subresources with distinct urls in it, where as we go down the page the url keeps updating itself. I can maybe imagine commenting per section. I can maybe imagine ActivityPub readers that can show the top resource & let folks expand the remainder if interested. I can recreate a better more featureful more complex medium, if I drastically rebuild what a page is/how it works.
There's a dozen structural advantages to using the web like a hyper-medium, not just a long scroll of paper. Yes we can try to import those features onto the virtual long-scroll-of-paper. But why? Many people like this hyper-medium. Im sorry but I think the pro-blog people need to fix their own problems & build better clients. Assimilate yourself & stop being petulant, acknowledge the superior medium that is more capable, and for god sake, start building some clients that hide all the stuff that you find so so bothersome to yourselves so you can please be less miserable people.
