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.
If UR reading this on the Micro.blog timeline, and you have, at some point, found yourself muting a Micro.blog account, holler back. My pristine (allbeit short) list of interactions took on a semisweet turd yesterday… I'm curious where the social media water marks are for y'all power socializers.
Totally expect to mute an account out of existence for the first time on Micro.blog later day. Fingers crossed we have a willing intellect capable of constructing a logical frame around a particular bit of broad generalization that wants to be clever but reduces to nought but an insult. *breathing*
From 9 MB accounts to 18, here's a screencast of the folks I've nabbed to date
Holler if you're reading this on the MB timeline and you aren't one of the nine folks I'm following.
The ineffective reach is unfortunate; otherwise, after 3+ years of cross-posting out of Micro.blog, I most certainly would have given y'all an open source iOS app that monitors your MB feed for new posts, automatically cross-posting highly configurable platform specific adaptations of your content.
Not sure who borked who when it comes to Twitter blowing image and preview card display for Micro.blog cross-posts. I'm holding on to all my fucks, anywho. It turns out that when a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is around to hear, it really doesn't make a sound.
Feels like I oughta update my cards plugin to scrape and forward the image provided by the first included card in posts that include one or more preview cards but don't include any images of their own to populate metadata for their own card.
If you're reading this on a Micro.blog timeline, and you follow this account, let me know. I want to follow you back (I still haven't deduced how to achieve my law of exclusively mutual on the MB platform). @odd , I've already got ya. @johnphilpin, @pratik… holler if ya dropped.
Here's another Micro.blog timeline feeler to see if anyone is even reading these there. You only get counted when you reply … what you feel like saying is irrelevant in this particular scenario. Here's a lure:
What you get in the Micro.blog Timeline versus what you get if you decide to load my post or you're on a platform targeted for cross-posts (Mastodon probably still shitting the preview card bed; but, the others oughta be similar to this card in Apple Messages):
So, @manton, search and replace for vertical cross >}} hung on me when I tried it out after you brought it to my attention. This morning I took another stab at it starting with horizontal cross >}}. This time the operation succeeded so I tried vertical cross >}} again. It's hanging. In both cases the replacement is >}}. The only difference that stands out is the post total. I don't believe the successful operation was paged while the hanging operation previews latest 50. It could be a post content issue though as the horizontal cards are mostly simple song link posts.
Our posts are stored on the server in their markdown format, right @manton? What I've been missing in the post editing is multi-file find and replace. Were you to give us a nifty way to download and upload our native post content, making such edits would become trivial.
Note to self: if I ever roll my own Micro.blog client, include an option to register a regular expression for a Hugo Shortcode that extracts the anticipated textual footprint for a more accurate character count within the post editor.
cc @manton