right to post
盯雞堡宮 started What do I have the right to post? with this story:
A few moments ago, I dashed out a massive, lengthy blog post about all the despondent things I've been thinking lately. While I was originally going to publish it publicly, I realized that it was just a long, pointless rant, and there was no way anyone else could ever derive any value from it. And if someone clicked on it expecting something thought-out with a point, I would just have wasted their time; made them uncomfortable with the post contents, even. So I set it to be not discoverable.
How can you guarantee nobody else deriving any value from your work? Consider how much other people's awareness of your presence, if not your value, can transcend beyond your own awareness. Even if you keep your work to yourself, consider how much it informs future public expressions of yours with family, friends, and strangers alike, whether in-person or virtually. Information and learning from it are much more leaky, discoverable facets of life than meets the eye.
Must posting take place only when what I want to say, and what everyone might want to read, coincide?
No, not only because you can't guarantee that, but also because people sometimes want to read that which they haven't yet coincided with.
Is it okay for me to release an article onto the Discovery feed when it was written entirely for my own benefit?
Yes, in that things written entirely for your own benefit could also benefit other people. The difference between what you know and what the people around you know can be stark. You can help bridge those gaps like anyone else can.
I don't really know. I plan to maintain my policy of setting purely personal posts as undiscoverable, and publicly publishing thoughts like this that I'd like reading from others. But I do wonder...it'd be so nice to be able to just unload my personal troubles out there sometimes.
Unload your personal troubles out there at whatever capacity that keeps you afloat. Sometimes, thoughts deserve your eyes only. Other times, they deserve the grace of people kindly responding to them. There's a lot more room in between those ends of the spectrum for any given thought to reside within too.