Longform posting allows you to establish your credibility and put your point forward.
Maybe this is why Twitter is such a miserable experience. Way too many opinions from the vulgar mass
I'd rather stare at the sky than use TikTok, by the way.
An enormous number of people have established themselves as known experts on a given topic via "microblogging" channels, which for nearly everyone means Twitter and Facebook. Hopefully, open/federated microblogging will break out of its niche.
Just one example of this is the many thousands of virologists, epidemiologists, public health scholars, and statisticians who built huge followings (effectively from zero) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
> Longform posting allows you to establish your credibility and put your point forward.
Microblogging is a great channel for this too. These are not either/or choices, and any good strategy for establishing yourself as an expert — or whatever your goal is — will include both of these communications channels and more.
Long form posting is dead as a door nail.