@jean Phew! Really glad you received that in the spirit in which it was meant. I love micro.blog. I want more people, from more diverse backgrounds, to feel empowered to use it. As it stands right now though, I'm related to someone who literally does brain surgery, whose response to micro.blog would be, "yeah, no; staying with TikTok" (Sidenote for medical humor fans: Dr. Glaucomflecken is from Portland, OR.) This started out as a marketing thread and as I see it, I'm really talking about marketing: getting the word out about micro.blog, to the people who can use and enjoy it. What I do for a living could be summed up as: 1) build and facilitate community among people who have significant political, philosophical, and socio-economic differences; and 2) make complex, actionable information accessible to people regardless of their educational backgrounds or technological know-how. So these are major professional interests for me. As a professional community-builder I am so impressed with how micro.blog is mindfully and intentionally _structured_ -- technologically and socially -- to foster a life-giving community. This is VERY hard to do, and you and @manton have done it very, very well. This is why I am here. I can start a blog in a lot of places. I'm here for the community. I would love to read Manton's book for the community-building philosophy behind it, which would be useful to all kinds of communities, probably including my off-line ones; but I am honestly worried that it would be too technical for me to understand. @uncertainquark excellent post! That was my exact experience looking into Mastodon, and -- yeah, no; I'll stick with micro.blog.

I just started listening to a discussion between @danielpunkass and @manton about the risk of Mastodon becoming the default #Fediverse platform, and crowding out other Fediverse services like Micro.blog (for example).

On a similar note, what if Tumblr becomes a dominant #ActivityPub service? Will it crowd out the rest?

I will probably have a few more thoughts when I have time to really listen and consider their thoughts.

Worth listening for sure, though: https://pca.st/rj79laxg#t=28m14s

2022-12-06 10:38

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@jean Phew! Really glad you received that in the spirit in which it was meant.

I love micro.blog. I want more people, from more diverse backgrounds, to feel empowered to use it. As it stands right now though, I’m related to someone who literally does brain surgery, whose response to micro.blog would be, “yeah, no; staying with TikTok” (Sidenote for medical humor fans: Dr. Glaucomflecken is from Portland, OR.)

This started out as a marketing thread and as I see it, I’m really talking about marketing: getting the word out about micro.blog, to the people who can use and enjoy it.

What I do for a living could be summed up as: 1) build and facilitate community among people who have significant political, philosophical, and socio-economic differences; and 2) make complex, actionable information accessible to people regardless of their educational backgrounds or technological know-how. So these are major professional interests for me.

As a professional community-builder I am so impressed with how micro.blog is mindfully and intentionally structured – technologically and socially – to foster a life-giving community. This is VERY hard to do, and you and @manton have done it very, very well. This is why I am here. I can start a blog in a lot of places. I’m here for the community.

I would love to read Manton’s book for the community-building philosophy behind it, which would be useful to all kinds of communities, probably including my off-line ones; but I am honestly worried that it would be too technical for me to understand.

@uncertainquark excellent post! That was my exact experience looking into Mastodon, and – yeah, no; I’ll stick with micro.blog.

2022-12-07 14:23

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