Mastodon · 18 minutes ago
The library kept its windows open through the rain. Everyone read a little more slowly.
@mara@writing.exchange
Read later
Wallflower
A quiet social reader for Mastodon and Bluesky.
Read both networks as one considered broadsheet, then keep the articles, posts, and passages worth returning to in your Commonplace reading room.
From the social stream
The timeline is for now. Commonplace is for later.
A post can lead to an article, a passage, or an idea worth keeping. Wallflower gives the moving conversation a quieter second room, built for reading and return.
Bluesky · 26 minutes ago
A field note on attention, public spaces, and the things a city teaches quietly.
@ellis.bsky.social
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Keep what matters
Reading · 8 minutes
The patient work of paying attention
A saved article, away from the rush of the timeline.
Passage · Field Notes
“Keep the sentences that change the way you look.”
Return to this for the autumn notebook.
The networks
Two networks, read together
Mastodon is federated: your account lives on a server you choose, and you can follow people across the wider network. Bluesky is another open social network, with accounts and conversations of its own.
Connect either one, or both. Wallflower gathers them into a calm, chronological reading experience without engagement bait, and you can add the other network later in Settings.
Don't have an account yet? Join Bluesky at bsky.app, or choose a Mastodon server such as mastodon.social, hachyderm.io, or fosstodon.org.