In reply to Ed Heil.

They're not blog posts just because you put them on a website. They're still just notes or status updates. https://indieweb.org/note Since it's your own website, you can control what you display on your homepage or on your "blog". Many people have separate feeds for their articles and their notes.

Some of us have a huge slew of other content types and allow readers to pick and choose what they want. https://indieweb.org/posts#Types_of_Posts

Having done it for several years, I'll say it's a whole lot nicer and easier for me to post this stuff in one place and not have to worry about searching around for that one thing I posted a year ago (Was it on Twitter, Facebook, Pinboard, etc.? It's always on my own website.)

For some it may be a dramatic shift in how they think about social media because they've been swimming in corporate social for so long that they don't know what other possibilities exist. Explore around a bit, figure out what you want, and implement that. If it's something you don't want/need then don't do it. That's half the fun of having your own website.

It may also seem like more (work) to you because of your current set up being much more manual than mine, but if you go down the road of using tools like social readers and micropub clients, then you might actually find that it's actually even easier than using some of your favorite social media sites. Take a peek at https://wordpress.tv/2019/06/26/chris-aldrich-micropub-and-wordpress-custom-posting-applications/.