If I ever get my feelings sorted regarding social media, @manton will be getting a soft shoutout for being the kind of thoughtful and responsive developer I want building my platform.
Side note: I probably sorted my feelings and this is probably the soft shoutout.
@manton It’s just me, but a button to fill the field in with my default feed would prevent me having to use patient iPhone fingers to copy and paste it back. I have been trying disconnecting to quell dopamine posts while exploiting the reply behavior to stay connected with the MB community.
Micro.blog is finding out just how comfortable you actually are with having the last word.
Side note: I get zero email to [email protected] and yet I still think of it as the private messaging arm of Micro.blog
A social media platform’s touch-awareness parameter (Micro.blog at one end of the spectrum and my old Twitter experience the other) would be per person customizable and vastly improved with a simple quantum leap: make everything opt-in with three choices yes | no | whatever and wire up the spectrum
The video (which I had to write a Shortcut to compress since nobody wants to handle iPhone video compression anymore, trick was trim video compressing for me) with the papa of our adorable Murphy-era skunk family I wanted to dig out for @pratik and the shampoo bottle photo I uncovered as a bonus.
And if the video in the last one doesn’t show up in the MB timeline, I may as well disconnect my feed again. Almost expressing myself is unacceptable. @manton, @odd… y’all can let me know if you suppose my video art is functional.
And that is what I get for trying to inline an image using the MB app >.<
I just don’t know how to square this sudden onset of inspired writing and the bits of me I put on display with the crickets @manton gives me back. @odd and @pratik tend to keep me engaged (few others as well), but I’m still 50/50 on whether keeping my posts connected to the MB timeline is positive.
I bet at least ten of you are within fifty miles of me. If social media cultivated and strengthened local communities supplementally instead of replacing them, perhaps some of the batshit could be held at bay.
“Hey, yeah, that looks cool!”
“Here, let me show you something cool… wait… let me take twice as long to store twice the data to create an entire full fledged blog post just for you…”
“On second thought, I’m not that invested.”
Holler if you break the ability to manage the upload myself and img
.@pratik if this message makes it out, we’re all trapped in the well out back
Social media platforms won’t require editorial oversight; but, they will require curation and cultivation in order to actually function the way we all hoped they would. There are good reasons most of my posts would never show up on MB’s Discover tab. It isn’t an algorithm. I’m not silenced.
Either I’ve shaken all followers from my Micro.blog account or @manton oughta consider reading my blog posts from this year like a diary and then pondering whether the social model for his platform **out-of-words**. As the author of the blog posts, I honestly would not know.
Two month post dump backing up to MB Timeline
Well, minus all but the last two I guess. Disengage.
Two month MB post dump
Quick question, @manton… I disconnected my feed from MB for April hunting a noticeable impact.
I reconnected for May, everything operating as expected and intended.
Presently, I was perusing the MB timeline in search of my April posts when I was low key surprised to actually find them.
Regardless of whether they are meant to be there now (I am entirely indifferent), I’m curious if they were there in April or, as I would suspect, if they are simply being drawn in on account of the reconnected feed.
As expected, disconnecting my feed from all social media platforms for an entire month, including Micro.blog, has zero impact.
When you’ve disabled cross posting to Micro.blog and Mastodon for the month of April just to find out what the Plausible Analytics snapshot will look like in comparison to the month of March.
A quick random catch for you @manton: if 'a' + 'n' + 'd' amounts to three characters; then, '&' amounts to five. This being the UI, I have zero confidence in my ability to report actual variable values and my Unicode is fuzzy enough for me to have overlooked something.
Raise your hand if you're reading this on the Micro.blog timeline and you love adorable dog pics (post one of a three post exchange, I will check back tomorrow).
.@manton, thoughts on moving towards a muted, autoplay model for videos in the timeline… or are you imagining Micro.blog users with a higher rate of play presses (cause I'm imagining a bunch of large darkish gray rectangles with light, tipped over triangles flying off scrolled screens)?
Someone show me a list of the Micro.blog supported emoji tags. Should I find myself bored enough, I may construct a proof of why the MB emoji model is a flawed, limiting system.
Cc @manton
Despite my best efforts at ensuring proper textual context, I still managed to yank the benefit of the doubt too early yesterday. My list of MB mutes is back down to zero. Apologies for the super low key and overly clever snark.