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For those who are concerned about Micro.blog’s involvement with Meta, you can now post any questions and concerns on the Help forum since the team is looking for greater, public contributions to features that impact community.
I’m certain the topic of how Micro.blog operates alongside, and sometimes with massive platforms will be useful for the next Micro Camp.
Lots of questions, lots of concerns, lots of reasons to feel uncertain about this whole thing.
In fact, you could run a whole event around this issue.
Always nice to hear Ben Elton describe the current PM. I think “mendacious narcissistic sociopath” is my description of the year.
DuckDuckGo has started to feel bloated lately. I really don’t have the capacity to be fiddling with search engines.
The “Personal Journals” sub-category in Apple Podcasts has been made more prominent by Apple, which is a nice accidental update for Micro.blog; this sub-category is the default choice for Micro.blog podcasts.
It isn’t just about a website, or a protocol, or a protest by an Instance here and there.
It’s about how we choose to build our society.
Painting people who are anti-Meta as being bad or wrong or villainous seems like an awfully short-sighted view to take.
I’ve decided to avoid the type of nasty people on the web who are very good at dishing out insults and dismissive remarks but when it’s time for somebody to disagree, they start crying “bullying”.
These are toxic people and it’s sad to see them acquire influence in our social spaces.
So. We’re in Cornwall.
It is amazing; even though we’ve only been here together on two occasions, both within the past fourteen months, there is no doubt that Claire and I want little more than to settle in this particular place. The West Country is, truly, exactly where we belong.
And it’s weird, partly because one of the reasons we’re here is so that Claire can attend part one of an interview — we’re both nervous and I have full faith that she will give them no reason other than to offer her the position — and because it is the first time we have ever deliberately taken time out for a break. This is our first holiday together. It’s a short break but when you have not taken one in almost twenty years it feels so very long in the very best way imaginable.
Now, given time away, it has provided me with the chance to prioritise a number of thoughts, ideas, and possibilities that I have been holding back… or rather, I have provided myself with that chance. Isn’t it weird how easy it is to forget that the time we spend is often of our own making?
On top of the many updates due for @TIL, and the shared stories with Claire, I now realise I need to more seriously create space for my long-form blogging. It’s likely that I’ll publish the many thoughts and ideas freed to roam by the break, in an effort to “work-in-public” as I have in the past; a glance at my archives proves that I was once much more open and I can’t deny that many parts of daily life were much better during those times, specifically as relates to my wellbeing and consequent effect on everything around me.
… now that was a ridiculously long sentence.
I’m not sure if future posts will be much like this. I intend to be concise when discussing my ideas and thoughts, although maybe that has also changed recently during my long-form drought? I don’t know…
- On holiday.
- Internet scarce.
- Phone out of battery.
Suddenly realised just how important it isn’t that I know the exact temperature at any given time.
I was glad to see, at WWDC, Apple spent seemingly no time saying anything about “AI”.
It would be disheartening to see such an influential cultural institute endorse the misuse of that name.
Right now if I was asking for help on the Micro.blog forums I would automatically @-mention the following names in my post:
manton sod jsonbecker
It’s the best chance of success and closest thing we have to an official support team on that site.