My ideal blogging platform

So this started as a conversation with the hoosband, about his frustrations with social media. His primary complaint is that social media focuses on the latest update information tidbit -- your one-liner post about how you found the perfect banana today outweighs your long thoughtful post about your career, just by being more recent. This is pretty much true whether it's Facebook, tumblr, or LJ/DW -- the newest post is always on top, and older things just get buried through the passage of time. So there's this idea of "archive-quality" stuff vs. "ephemera" that existing platforms have trouble capturing. From the creative work perspective, a random doodle that I spent 5 minutes on would have the same spatial weight on a website as something that I spent 2 weeks laboring over. He's now working on creating his own thing that's more gallery-based and less "latest-update" based. But I wanted to expand this to thinking about what my ideal blogging platform would be like --

For one, I actually disagree with him a bit about the futility of having things be temporally organized -- there *is* a need for these micro-updates: it's the equivalent of internet small talk or just "catching up". Hoosband might not care at all about whether his friend on the other side of the continent found the perfect banana or not, but I do. I want to be able to commiserate, or hit a "like" button to help celebrate life's small victories. But only for certain people.

Similarly, there are other people where I would really prefer to just read their cool thinky posts, and wish their blog was organized more topically rather than by their latest rant.

And from the poster's perspective, there's definitely things that I write that I just want a quick "I feel ya" click of the like button, others where I want to instigate a discussion, and still others that I don't want comments on at all because I *know* I'm being dumb, I just needed to vent.

I also sometimes run in to this problem on tumblr, which is that I want all of their art but none of the political rants, or all of the fandom analyses but none of the fashion. So really, I feel like there's several genres of posts -- personal life bits, interest-based stuff (kittens, fashion, handsome men, star trek), and also creative work (art, writing, opinion pieces)

So, in toto, every time I post something on the internet, I'd like to be able to control:
- permanence: whether it's time-sensitive / how ephemeral it is / whether it should be archived and curated. (Wouldn't it be rad if I can set all of my shitposts to just automatically disappear after 12 hours?)
- type of response: do I want my post to have likes vs. comments vs. threaded discussion
- privacy and dissemination: who can view it / comment / reblog
- genre: personal, interest-based, or creative

And when I follow someone on the internet, I'd like to be able to choose a cross-section of the above, as well -- maybe for one friend, I want to get *all* of their personal updates, their less-ephemeral creative work, and only their interest-based posts about Steven Universe but none of their posts about Baseball. Maybe if I haven't checked my friends feeds in a while, I can choose to not show any ephemera older than 3 days, or only show major announcements and archival stuff.

Right now the solution is to spread your internet presence across multiple platforms -- tumblr sideblogs for interest-based things, facebook for life updates, professional website for more archival posts, and DW/LJ/Wordpress for threaded discussion. (Although actually I feel like there isn't a single good place for threaded discussion -- DW/LJ's been dead, no one can find your Wordpress, Facebook is a mosh pit, and tumblr is a yell zone. So... maybe interest-specific forums?)

Anyway, wouldn't it be awesome to have all of that consolidated in one place? Like, you show up on my blog and *front and center* are my long discussion posts and my archival creative work, there's a little panel to the side with the latest ephemera, and there's lots of convenient links and tags that allow you to easily find the topics on my blog that most interest you, and you can choose to follow whatever. And I can also choose to give you additional access to certain updates if I know that you're not my mom! And when you reblog my public discussion post, all the threaded comments go along with it! (Whereas you can't reblog my highly personal life update post...)

This would probably only work if people tag conscientiously, and I don't see much money-making potential in creating this sort of platform, but it was at least a nice thought experiment. :D