quotes
via Micro.blog News:
Fixed an issue processing some Substack feeds. Also now prefers the full-length text of a post (newsletter email?) from Substack.
Ahem. That’s content blob, thank you very much.
It feels good to be back:
It has been both a lot of fun and a relief to work on TIL again. The feeling I get from connecting to more of the open web, at the cost of the closed web, is… comfort, I think?
Yesterday I learned about Sydney Smith, due to use of the following quote:
It is the greatest of all mistakes, to do nothing because you can only do little…
Now I want to read whatever remains of his work.
Most of us use language like an awkward and crude tool to gesture vaguely at the inexpressible within.
— Jeremy, Towards Better Postcards
Photos are a different story. A single photo with no text can convey a lot that others might appreciate… if they can see the photo.
— Jean MacDonald, ALT descriptions and Micro.blog’s Discover timeline
A very good first step for assertive improvements to accessibility on Micro.blog.
If you wouldn’t take someone’s guide cane to show off how well you can twirl it about, you absolutely shouldn’t be misusing alt text for the sake of a joke.
— Becky Brynolf, the head of social media at the Royal Institute of Blind People
Quote tweets are happening but you can’t block anyone and muting doesn’t work.
(emphasis mine)
— Elizabeth Lopatto, They’re ‘skeets’ now
Is this post a joke or serious? Still trying to work out why Micro.blog is connected to this thing.
That is two and a half times as much as Covent Garden and English National Opera put together.
Meanwhile, in London, Arts Council England is sticking to its opera cuts.
— Norman Lebrecht, Paris pays its Opéra’s energy bills
Strong and stable; prosperity for miles. All going well. 👍
… the data is badly entered and there’s no way for listeners to edit it, even locally. You can do that in Apple Music, but not in Apple Classical Music. So you’re stuck with whatever the label gives you and sometimes that’s just not the way it needs to be.
— Gregory Pittman, on Apple’s Classical Music app.
This sounds awful and yet more reason to focus on locally owned and managed music for anybody who cares even a little bit about having a good experience.
Music is too important to me that l would continue to allow Apple’s terrible efforts to dictate the role it plays in my life.
When you upload a picture, it will remain hidden until you add a description (this ensures that every picture has accessible alt text). With a description in place, the picture will appear on the some.pics landing page and on your personal page (which you can access by clicking your omg.lol address wherever it shows up on the site).
— Adam Newbold, Picture Sharing and Discourse
Not only another cool feature for omg.lol but a great way to actually support accessibility. It would be great if other platforms, including Micro.blog, used a similar system.
Those full posts don’t have a limit. It’s the Micro.blog timeline that encourages the 280-character limit to make the timeline as readable as possible, not cluttered with long posts or “read more” links.
— Manton Reece, Rounding up to 300 characters
Seeing the bump to 600 happen in the counter is awesome. This is a very good change to Micro.blog. :)
… it’s important that Micro.blog stays true to its blogging roots and unique take on social media, rather than shifting to be a Twitter or Mastodon clone. We don’t need a monoculture with all apps looking exactly the same.
— Manton Reece, Ivory and Micro.blog, not yet
💯
We didn’t buy Flickr because we thought it was an amazing business opportunity—it was losing staggering amounts of money, and nobody else seemed interested in the potential.
— Ben MacAskill, Why we’re doing this
This foundation is a very good thing. Long overdue.
Anyways, dozens, and all with their unique handwriting. And today, for whatever reason, that was all I was focusing on, each unique handwriting. In my mind, I was like, “what typeface would that one be called?”
A great question to ask.