There to Here

Earlier today I asked a search agent to identify tools that allow me to publish long form texts via ATProto (e.g. on Bluesky) and to crosspost to the fediverse.

There were no results.

Yeah. Well, lucky me, I kept looking, by other means.

Actually, I should modify the previous sentence: there were no direct results. There was a result about write.as from Indie Microblogging by Manton Reece . While I was reading that info on micro.blog, and about that platform itself, it occurred to me that I'd seen write.as mentioned somewhere before... so I went for a look, then came back, and read some more, this time, about ATProto , Leaflet, and https://standard.site .

All rather circuitous, and information-overloading, but ...results!

Not just Leaflet , but pckt.blog , and Offprint.app as well. Which means this is a test drive, whose aim to get to 1000 characters, and see whether it gets crossposted nicely.

Images, you say? Yes, might as well add one, given the opportunity.
This is what started it all: the idea of posting a long-winded response to a UK Cabinet Office response to a petition about Members of Parliament who change their party affiliation after having been elected. Quite typically, petitions asking the government of the day to regulate themselves more effectively are dismissed, well, dismissively. For a moment, I was tempted to start a petition requesting the Cabinet Office to retract the statement it has made about this one. Then I thought I would write to my MP . This is the result - still in draft form.