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I got a few sentences into this “Authenticity” thing and stopped.
- The website is fucking awful.
- The idea that people stopped caring about “selling out” in 2008 is horseshit.
- Seriously, “Subpixel Space”? 🙄
There is a genuine belief from people in 2018 that pre-2008 internet was much better. It’s the midlife crisis for the social web early adopter generation.
I would think Google would want to kick Apple’s ass here.
– John Gruber on Google’s changes to their storage prices
It’ll be interesting to see if Apple ever gathers the courage to offer unlimited photo + video storage from one of their phones.
It’s Micro Monday time and it’s gotta be @vishae, whose feed makes me feel a whole lot better about the random assortment of interests that I hold. Truly a person who enjoys the variety of life with both great care and genuine enthusiasm.
(ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*: ･ﾟSerena Who?
What a day:
- Dialog beta imminent
- Micro Monday incoming
- Webmentions updated
- NEW GLITCH MOB (I just saw this for the first time 😭)
💯💯💯
… Israel has now killed more than 90 Palestinians in the past six weeks for approaching the fence it placed around Gaza, surpassing the total number of East Germans shot and killed for trying to scale the Berlin Wall from 1961 to 1989
I still can’t vouch for omnibear as much as I would like. Anything but a basic note post does not work from Chrome with a Micro.blog hosted site. And as with too much of the IndieWeb, the opportunity to get help is not as obvious as it ought to be.
testing omnibear
Beta version of first non-Apple Micro.blog app is almost here!
I’ve noticed a pattern with regard to British comedians:
The moment they have “made it” in the US is a sign they’ve used up what talent they had and are now desparate more than anything. Example: Ricky Gervais
The junkyard of settings menus is one of many reasons as to why Twitter’s first-party experience is awful. Case in point, it is no longer possible to block retweets globally: help.twitter.com/en/using-…
cc: @macgenie
Open Live Writer (predictably) has… issues. Let’s see what iA Writer has to offer on Windows – the Android app has promise, at a first glance.
I wonder if we could have some official requests/suggestions channels for Micro.blog. I enjoy reading Manton’s blog and talking to him as a Micro.blog user but the constant interceding by people asking for something doesn’t make for a nice experience at all.