Oh, wait! Speaking about old domains.. this very domain actually turned 20 this year! How have I missed that.. Pop the champagne! 😃🍾
Holy moly! Just rediscovered an archive of nearly 100 draft posts I once planned to finish and publish on nomadcouch.com — a blog I ran until 2012. Brought back some golden memories! 😄 That’s 13 years ago… where does the time go? Maybe it’s time to reimagine it and start fresh? 🫢
Oh cool, my Instagram “For You” feed just served me a promoted post with borderline porn. Full-nudity image carousel, nothing “artistic” about it. Reported it, naturally — but guess what? “Doesn’t violate community guidelines.” Of course not. Why would it? 🙃
How come so many people still call X ‘Twitter’? I mean, it’s been almost two years since the rebrand, and I still see ‘Follow me on Twitter’–type links several times a day in emails alone. Is it intentional? It can’t all be “oh, I forgot to change that” type of oops? 😄
The Beekeeper, 2024 - ★★★
Typical Statham flick. Watched it on an airplane, so not the optimal experience, but I enjoyed it. Yeah, some of the villains were just ridiculous, but hey, we’ve seen worse! If you enjoy Statham movies, give it a watch.
Bluesky down? Never seen that happen before (doesn’t seem to work on mobile either) 😅
I sometimes find myself cancelling my Micro.blog subscription on a whim when I start thinking about blogging on a new platform (sorry @manton! 😅). But after each time, I find myself coming back. Why? There just ain’t a publishing platform out there that makes the barrier of publishing this easy. Plus, of course as there’s a backlog of previous posts already, you avoid the horror of staring at your fancy new blog with just one blog post published.
Having said that, there is a completely new blog design coming soon (on micro.blog). Just takes a while for me to get all the pixels in the right order, before I’m happy with it. 😁
Re-evaluate
The recent events in the US have made me seriously re-evaluate the idea of using US-based services for web hosting, social media, streaming, and all that jazz. I’m deeply saddened by the state of things, but it is what it is. I know there are a lot of good folks out there in the US (hopefully the majority) fighting the good fight. But in the end, the way things have progressed is forcing my hand to take some drastic measures.
From phone to desktop: A social media reset
I’m trying a new approach to social media usage for the coming weeks: I’ve removed most social apps from my phone and will use them only on a desktop. That means Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, and Micro.blog are now gone from my phone. Facebook was already removed earlier. Instagram stays because I still want to post stories directly, and WhatsApp remains for communication. So, that’s it for Meta apps on my phone—less Meta, even if just in terms of installed apps, feels like a win!
Part of me thinks, now would be a good time to drop off the social media for an extended period of time (4 years, perhaps?). Then again, that might not be wise either. After all, when you know what’s happening around the world, you can at least try to prepare for the ill effects. Thoughts? 🤪
I wonder if, 10 years from now, we’ll still be playing the “my platform just got rug pulled—where do I go now?” game. Or have we finally realized that the only way to opt out for good is to make our personal websites and blogs the place to be again? #startyourblog
Micro.blog might just be the last benevolent social network out there, when all the dust has settled. I mean, there’s Bluesky and Mastodon for sure, but.. dunno. Feeling pessimistic about the future of social media in general atm. There’s shitshows and dumbster fires everywhere you look 😓
I wonder how medium.com’s article discovery works these days, because it feels like.. it doesn’t? Wrote a piece and published it on Friday. Today, it has 3 views and 0 reads. And I’m supposed to have 1.5k “followers” there. Is that the normal experience there these days? Seems bit.. brutal? 😅
Oh, this is 💯 my problem, too: Cutting back by @MacPsych
Spreading myself thin with all the different social channels in the recent years and this year (despite all the Fediverse stuff) has probably been one of the worst. Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, Micro.blog + handful of blogs on various platforms. It’s just too much. I’m strongly contemplating writing to a single blog in 2025, perhaps sharing those posts to Fediverse and be done with it. Tbh, not even sure about the sharing part. I mean, distribution is nice, but.. I really don’t want to keep bouncing between all those socials next year. I can’t seem keep myself active in one, let alone all of them. 😅
Oh how I hate those AI movie trailers that have infested YouTube with passion. Just saw another one, which I first though was a “real trailer” for an upcoming blockbuster. It’s beyond me how those don’t get taken down / sued by the movie studios. It’s one thing to make “fan art” and whole another to not even mention in the trailer description that this one’s generative AI made. All “just for the clicks/views”. 🤬
What a stunning Aurora Borealis week it was last week. One can never get tired of these views! 😍
#auroraborealis #finland
If someone’s interested, I have a few record.club invites to share. First come, first serve 😁👋
Looks like only Mastodon cross-post went through. Bluesky and Threads “didn’t get the memo”. Let’s try again 🤔
Testing micro.blog cross-posting to Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads (don’t mind this message, will delete later). 😁
I’m a bit late to the party (here on this blog), but I just want to take a moment to congratulate @dave for the incredible milestone of blogging non-stop for the past 30 years! There are very few (if any!) bloggers who have been doing this for as long as that. Even the Wayback Machine doesn’t have records of those first years (as it was started in 1996 and Dave’s blog has been around from ‘94!) @kottke.org and @zeldman.com might come close!
So, congratulations are certainly in order! Hat tip to you, sir! 🥳