I’m rediscovering the wonderful micro.blog and I’m amazed at what you can do with it. : johnan-test.micro.blog
@JohnAN being here all the time makes you forget the steady ownward progress that the team makes over time … all the time.
@JohnPhilpin I know. Apologies. I have to get my head in limerick mode and it’s resisting. I had a couple of ideas but I didn’t like them. Thank you for the prod :)
@JohnPhilpin Here are three to be going on with :)
When posting online is a slog,
Take a breath, but away from the smog:
Reach your noblest ends
And your Mastodon friends
From the comfort of micro dot blog.
When spruiker, attacker and trog
Are viruses working the fog,
Come build your immunity;
Find your community,
Blogging at micro dot blog.
Your content, however you frame it,
Is diverted, wherever you aim it,
When a brand, as your host,
Owns whatever you post,
But at micro dot blog you reclaim it.
@JohnPhilpin Does this work?
When posting online is a slog,</br>
Take a breath, but away from the smog:</br>
Reach your noblest ends</br>
And your Mastodon friends</br>
From the comfort of micro dot blog.
When spruiker, attacker and trog</br>
Are viruses working the fog,</br>
Come build your immunity;</br>
Find your community,</br>
Blogging at micro dot blog.
Your content, however you frame it,</br>
Is diverted, wherever you aim it,</br>
When a brand, as your host,</br>
Owns whatever you post.</br>
But at micro dot blog you reclaim it.
Trying again:
When posting online is a slog,
Take a breath, but away from the smog:
Reach your noblest ends
And your Mastodon friends
From the comfort of micro dot blog.
When spruiker, attacker and trog
Are viruses working the fog,
Come build your immunity;
Find your community,
Blogging at micro dot blog.
Your content, however you frame it,
Is diverted, wherever you aim it,
When a brand, as your host,
Owns whatever you post.
But at micro dot blog you reclaim it.
When posting online is a slog,
Take a breath, but away from the smog:
Reach your noblest ends
And your Mastodon friends
From the comfort of micro dot blog.
Nice … Thankyou 😎
@JohnPhilpin I did two spaces in a text editor and copied and pasted here, but just adding three spaces here is nice and easy.
Thank you back, with bells on … (searches for how to do bell emoji)
@JohnAN congrats on finding the bell emoji!
i find three spaces fits into the belt and braces category.
I was going to tell you not to forget that you can edit replies - but I see you did that :-)
adding a space between lines also creates a line break - like I have done with this reply.
@JohnPhilpin Thank you. My brain eventually catches up :) I’m going to add a space between lines now
to see if I’ve understood your meaning.
@JohnPhilpin Actually, John, I don’t think I do know how to edit replies. Do I? Could you give me a quick primer?
@JohnPhilpin Thank you :) Or “ta muchly,” as someone used to say. I think “your content” is my favourite as well. But I’m never really satisfied with with them.
@JohnAN in the app … on the left you will see replies … click on that … click on any reply from the past 24 hours and an option in the pop up menu is edit …
After 24 hours you can no longer edit.
@JohnPhilpin Aha! It’s only in the app that you can edit replies? I’ve found it now - a double click on the reply. I’m running out of thanks to give you but … (stretches) … here’s another one: thank you :)
@JohnAN no worries and anything I can do to help people is a small amount of pay it forward for the awesome help I get from others in here … it’s a spectrum .. not to mention paying you back for your limericks 🤓
I rarely use the web site … so I don’t know if you can do the reply edits there … but I think you can.
@JohnPhilpin Oh, totally. I can’t remember who said this, but I’m pretty sure it was a UK speaker. “Ta” used to be de rigeur in Australia too :) But you don’t hear it as much these days.
@JohnPhilpin If it can be done there I haven’t figured it out yet. But it’s fine in the app, because it’s on my laptop and mobile :) I know where to go now, to edit a reply.
@JohnPhilpin I’m afraid I can’t help you there, John. Reached the end of my knowledge of ’Ta”. But it would be interesting to know more.