One Man's notebook this week.
I needed this.
This is a useful round-up of Bluesky, Mastodon et al: Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options
2023-05-01
micro.blog is ending Twitter cross-posting in July. Here’s @manton from the announcement post:
“It’s all another reminder that centralized platforms with closed APIs can’t last. While it’s easy to blame Elon Musk, the writing has been on the wall for a decade.”
2023-05-01
Good piece on what Mastodon needs to embrace to have a significant role in the post-Twitter world.
[via @baldur]
2023-05-01
Up on the Downs as the rain hits.
These are real buildings, but they look like architects’ CAD renderings photoshopped in, don’t they?
May the Fourth be with you.
2023-05-04
Google has given up on subtlety in reminding us that Universal Analytics is less than two months away from its demise…
Peter Bihr on the death of the search and social web:
“That means two major driving forces of the contemporary internet are… basically useless now? Or at least unenjoyable? They feel dead, or maybe undead. At the very least, these areas need to be reinvented.”
2023-05-04
Don’t let Bluesky become a 💩 like Twitter
Wow. @dave is not impressed with Bluesky:
I definitely want Blue Sky to just go away. I don't like it because if it gains traction it has potential of replacing Twitter as the festering turd in the middle of what should have been a vibrant growing market that keeps anything else from rising in competition with it.
Bunting is occurring.
2023-05-04
All this fuss over an impractical new hat.
Reminds me of my late Mum, actually.
2023-05-06
All the faith leaders coming into the coronation together, and then our Hindu Prime Minister and our Muslim Scottish First Minister, is surprising moving. The UK ain’t doing many things right at the moment, but being a multi faith democracy is one of them.
2023-05-06
Penny Mordaunt cosplaying as Britannia.
Still, Britain has a bit of a cultural thing about women with swords.
