Good piece on what Mastodon needs to embrace to have a significant role in the post-Twitter world.
[via @baldur]
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.”
This is a useful round-up of Bluesky, Mastodon et al: Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options
Turns out that a bardcore cover of the Mando theme is basically just… The Mandalorian theme.
This is the (medieval) way.
Started reading: In The Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado 📚
“But if there is no risk in my writing, no fear, there is no pleasure. I have to make myself fed uncomfortable, take chances in the way a mountaineer does calculating and recalculating, pitching their frail body against the wind. In risk, we feel most alive.”
— from A Line Above the Sky by Helen Mort 📚
Currently reading: A Line Above the Sky by Helen Mort 📚
Never really got into Picard Series 1 & 2, but I have loved every moment of series 3. My Friday evenings won’t be quite the same.
Earning some Dad points for myself by installing Minecraft Legends on the Xbox, ready for post-school play tomorrow.
Some notes on Substack Notes.
I’ve been called “Tim” twice in emails already today, and it’s not even 10am on Monday.
Why?
Do I seem like a “Tim” so much it overrides my actual name?
I’m beginning to get the hang of keeping my Mastodon instance updated. Not as easy as, say, Ghost. But not as bad as I feared.
An awful lot of people on the internet seem to be under the illusion that being nasty to people online makes them a better person. Being nasty does more harm to you than the person you’re targeting, online or offline.
Feeling slightly guilty about how much time importing my huge Twitter archive into micro.blog is taking…
Verily, the bard hath used the roll of Rick.