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Today I received a cease and desist notice related to my recent comments about the attitudes and behaviors of some people within the IndieWeb space. I have complied with the notice and removed all requested content. And I’ve been advised to say nothing further, so, that’s it.
— Adam Newbold, Silenced
This is chilling.
(edit: Adam has now taken down the linked post. Given that this involves a legal issue I am now unsure if I should edit out the quote.)
I don’t know much about tech or media, but if a tech oligarch was helping to systematically dismantle the federal government using his own sequestered private sector employees, I might not, personally, report on it by primarily posting to the social media platform that he himself owns.
80 years ago we decided Nazis were people we needed to actively oppose.
I’m gonna hop off Micro.blog for a bit. Need to put my thoughts and feelings together away from the space that is inciting them, mostly in a bad way.
I’m going to post a thank-you note for many who have spoken up, and then I’ll be gone for a few days.
If anyone wants to chat, I am available.
Two weeks with no @JohnPhilpin on the timeline is just wrong.
Never been happier to have Thought Detox on my phone. Thanks again, @AngeloStavrow 🙏
Didn’t realise it’s been almost exactly three years since I posted my incoherent thoughts on Micro.blog and communication. I don’t like it has come about but at least the conversation is now moving ahead.
Hopefully it never stops. Continuous talk, paired with constant action is beyond necessary.
Here I am thinking about ways for Micro.blog to have a beta program of its own, meanwhile Apple is like “You can only submit two builds per day to Beta App Review”. The fact that the error message even exists is hilariously bad.
Great to see Kara Swisher calling out Matt Mullenweg after his latest round of toxic shit.
Beyond relieved to have abandoned WordPress years ago. I hope @manton sees all of this behaviour and understands how much of a “What Not To Do” playbook Mullenweg is running here.
In DDoS’ing Yourself with To-dos and Reminders, Barry Hess is uncomfortably relatable.
My venue of attack involves taking this part of my life as seriously as my other work. I’m going to sit down, on a regular basis, and process all of my reminders, takes, notes; it will be a priority-based system.
$1 per month for Micro.one is ridiculous value for money.
Thanks to @patrickrhone and his sweater talk I am now reminded that I must begin the process of acquiring an Aran garment.
Kitt Hodsden’s Ending Things fits with my word for 2025.
Worth your attention, from the desk of Chris Wilson: Live by the attention economy, die by the attention economy.
I posted four issues of the bts newsletter in the past five weeks. Quite happy with that since it is an experimental outlet with no schedule; this is due to how actively I am working on TIL in private. Not long ago I wasn’t even doing that.
You can get the latest issue by following the newsletter.
If you’re interested in the new Micro.blog Collections feature and want to get started by first making a Collection, I posted the instructions for doing so.
Let’s see how well new posts are getting into the timeline.
I wonder who counts as an active user.
How quick are new posts?