Digital gardens allow and respond to feedback

Created: Dec 16, 2022 | Updated: Nov 18, 2023 | B quality | Mid importance

I have recently added comments to this garden. I think it's critical, given the fact that digital garden posts are unfinished, or evergreen and digital gardens allow for learning in public. Since it's happening in public, comments should be made in public. And since the nodes are supposed to be evergreen, it's important that people can comment and point out things that have gotten out of date or that don't mesh well with local reality.

Of course this doesn't mean that people will actually leave comments (I've had them enabled for almost a month as of this writing and no one has left a single comment yet). But that's okay, because digital gardens don't need attention to thrive.

You can read more about my comments system.

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Digital gardens don't need attention to thrive

I think that everyone who publishes on the internet wants attention, but not too much attention. I've heard it said that Twitter gives everyone a chance to be the "main character" for the day, though as [[blog/mastodon-is-not-twitter|I've
Digital gardening principles
This is my attempt to distill and repeat what I consider to be the most important principles of digital gardening. These are taken mostly from the following sources:
- [Maggie Appleton - A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden](h
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For at least a year, I didn't have any comments on my digital garden, which is of course counter to the principle that digital gardens allow and respond to feedback. I was really excited to finally enable them, permanently,

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