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? 😄
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. 😁
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.
I’ve been moving things to European services where I can, but the reality is that—especially in the web space—most of the best services are based in the US. Replacing them is really hard. At this point, it’s impossible to replace all of them. And I feel torn about having to reconsider even those services that I believe have responsible ownership.
Are any of you facing the same dilemma? I’d love to hear how others are approaching this.
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!
This should also help minimize doomscrolling and spending too much time on these platforms. Checking feeds a few times a day from the desktop browser should be enough.
Wish me luck—let’s see how this goes! 😅
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 😓
