After a few weeks on Micro.blog, I took some time to write about my thoughts on the service so far - adamchandler.me/blog/2025…
@AdamChandler Thanks for writing this. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and I agree 100% with what you’ve said in the post. It truly reinforced my decision to join Micro.blog after quitting all social media in 2017.
@apoorplayer I truly believed a decade ago that social media giants would begin offering a more respectful product where users could create communities open or private without ads, invasive tracking or overreaching privacy violations but it’s only gotten worse.
@AdamChandler I’ve gone through the same thought process. I’m retired now, so I have no further need for commercialized social media. Micro.blog fits my retirement lifestyle so well! I don’t consider myself a technology geek, but I’ve been on computers since the Kaypro 2, and the level of disillusion I have after 40 years of using technology is probably not quantifiable.
@AdamChandler Just read your Micro.blog review and completely agree. My shared WordPress hosting is expiring next month, and with all the recent hullabaloo surrounding it, I decided to move on. That pushed me headfirst into Micro.blog, and I’ve imported everything over here. Very happy to be here!
@apoorplayer ..and to your point, there’s a great deal of us who think we need to be on Facebook but in reality (no matter the age) it just isn’t true. I talk to my family on the telephone more than I ever did when I was”saw them” on Facebook all day.
@mlm361 I’d also much rather give money to Micro.blog than a big hosting company or to wordpress.com directly. I honestly don’t believe that wordpress actually cares, as a company about blogging anymore. Pure blogging as a love of words is not something they’re interested in.