Micro.blog - JohnPhilpin mentions

Khaled Abou Alfa — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:00:18 +0000

@JohnPhilpin it’s a really great show.

matt penny — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:18:20 +0000

@JohnPhilpin have you heard their “Ain’t Goin’ to Goa”? Love that song.

John PHI⑊PIN — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:11:34 +0000

@JohnPhilpin same deal with SourceFeed it seems. New issue - or a rule change somewhere?

Joy_intl — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:58:17 +0000

@fractals I like reading other people's thoughts in this question, especially as in your case when they've lived in multiple countries.

For me, I created a special way to answer to declare, I'm part of the locals, whether they see me like that or not - I've lived here in France for over a decade - and I don't plan to go anywhere.
So when people say where are you from, they are only asking about why I'm different, but I define who I am - I say: I'm French, of American origin.

Jason Dettbarn — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:32:50 +0000

@JohnPhilpin yup! Thanks, thought I set up all the redirects correctly. 😄

Here’s the correct: endonend.org/blog/2025/cr…

Andy Sylvester — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:08:01 +0000

@JohnPhilpin glad you liked it!

Terry Godier — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:45:14 +0000

@JohnPhilpin Greatly helped to be one of the handful of public discovery feeds during the launch!

Terry Godier — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:32:34 +0000

@JohnPhilpin Every public feed at the time I wrote that had at least 75. Each.

Jessica Smith — Tue, 05 May 2026 07:02:31 +0000

@me Well, you could make a Mastodon account on social.lol (assuming you're already a member of omg.lol itself) and just operate it as an additional account, without migrating. I'm assuming micro.blog still has its crossposting features, so you could even have your posts go to both accounts automatically!

Jason Becker — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:45:53 +0000

@JohnPhilpin I like the broad idea. I dislike the specifics. It’d be fairly easy to add this to Micro.blog by customizing your json feed and rss template. I don’t think there are any meaningful limitations that would block a full implementation

Tom Loughlin — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:35:37 +0000

@JohnPhilpin I don’t have a firm grasp on all of it yet, not being a programmer. I am experimenting, however. I think implementation of Byline is what I am struggling to understand at the moment. But I feel this is a real serious option to Micro.blog. A blog with no need for a domain? Is that right?

Martin McCallion — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:59:58 +0000

@JohnPhilpin Right. I saw a banner on one of your recent posts saying ‘Created by a human in Scotland.’ But maybe that was a screengrab of something you were quoting? Hard to tell sometimes.

Manton Reece — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:45:28 +0000

@JohnPhilpin @sod I’ve looked at it. I had planned to make a Micro.blog plug-in but never got to it… The theme colors are something that might benefit Inkwell too.

Aaron Aiken — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:38:25 +0000

@JohnPhilpin 😂 we’ve been washing clothes and some come out with a very not clean smell. Maybe the clothing fibers are bad? Who knows. So I set out to clean it and now time will tell if I did anything or need to replace it.

Martin McCallion — Mon, 04 May 2026 08:30:41 +0000

@JohnPhilpin Are you in Scotland now? Whereabouts? Weren’t you in New Zealand?

Leon Mika — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:34:50 +0000

@JohnPhilpin A good response. I guess finding the right balance between writing to a global audience verses using language you’re comfortable with is a tricky one to strike.

Aaron Aiken — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:08:25 +0000

@JohnPhilpin agreed :-) did my best, wasn’t able to get the tub removed completely as I had hoped but still cleaned what I could with a long brush. Also as many nooks and crannies as possible.

Vincent — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:56:16 +0000

@JohnPhilpin Thank you! 🙏❤️

Khaled Abou Alfa — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:20:10 +0000

@JohnPhilpin Easily one of my favourite things I’ve read this week.

The Micro Blog — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:12:55 +0000

@JohnPhilpin What a great subject for a post!

Max Slinger — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:06:16 +0000

@JohnPhilpin five months to get there feels about right. the vibecoding pitch is ‘everyone can build now’ but the actual demand was always just ‘make the apps I already pay for less terrible’

Martin McCallion — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:12:48 +0000

@JohnPhilpin Here’s a tweet with the basics. The X-man has broken Twitter so you can’t see the thread without the app, it seems, but the whole context is on this page, I believe. It’s from Tribunal Tweets, citizen journalists who live-tweet employment tribunals.

Sven Dahlstrand — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:03:48 +0000

@JohnPhilpin This error message comes from Safari, specifically its WebKit browser engine. WebKit experienced some kind of internal error, such as a network hiccup, memory issue, or logic glitch. If you can find a way to consistently reproduce the bug, you can report it to the WebKit team over here.

Manton Reece — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:19:31 +0000

@JohnPhilpin Weird, I haven’t seen that exact error… Glad it’s working again.

Martin McCallion — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:54:32 +0000

@JohnPhilpin Absolutely! I’m not a speaker, but I know enough to know that, and have also heard it was once asked and answered in a court. That may be apocryphal, though.

Anyway, you could make an argument that it depends on the sex of the person, rather than their gender.

Brad Enslen — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:57:38 +0000

@JohnPhilpin They all end up in bunkers.

Mitch Wagner — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:25:51 +0000

@manton Fair enough and I do appreciate your continuing to discuss these issues.

Part of my frustration with Micro.blog \is I don’t actually know what I want at this point!

I’m active on Mastodon, BlueSky and the blogosphere, and I want the people who follow me to have native experiences on each platform. Maintaining a presence in all three places involves far too much cutting-and-pasting. Manton, I perceive you like to keep Mastodon and Bluesky at arm’s length. Not have a native experience there, but rather use those platforms to drive readers here.

I’m also active on Tumblr, but micro.blog’s syndication there is great, so that’s not a problem for me. Also, I perceive Tumblr is, sadly, waning.

And I’m also active on Facebook, but Facebook is actively hostile to automation so I don’t expect Micro.blog to do much there. Indeed, Facebook is where I get most of the activity on my posts.

Also, we disagree about boosts/reblogging. I have disagreed with you (respectfully!) about that for years, and my disagreement is getting more powerful now. Boosts/reblogging is a powerful tool for discovering new content. I’m particularly seeing that on Mastodon. Not supporting boosts and reblogs is like not supporting vowels.

@JohnPhilpin @chaitanya

BTW, welcome back to Micro.blog, @chaitanya ! I hope you enjoy it.

Chaitanya — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:56:01 +0000

@JohnPhilpin I am definitely getting my hands and my brain on those books this summer!

Chaitanya — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:55:08 +0000

@JohnPhilpin Agreed. Though I will always support a good new RSS reader for Linux (even though I know that’s the last of the OS family that will ever get it given currently there are no Micro.blog or even Micropub client for it). I am being greedy here ahahahaha!

Chaitanya — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:36:46 +0000

@MitchWagner @JohnPhilpin @manton Coming back to micro.blog after 5 years away, I find how little the core experience has changed and I mean that as a genuine compliment. The new additions are there if you want them, but they don’t get in the way of me just posting. What I have come to appreciate is trust in the setup remaining stable (which I have failed for myself while self-hosting or even on the Fediverse in general). The newer platforms that have emerged since micro.blog (many with similar IndieWeb or richer feature sets per se) don’t give me that same confidence right now either.