We saw this sobering sign and candle at the vet a few days ago.
If you’re seeing this on Mastodon, I suggest you follow me at @mitchw@mastodon.social. If you think you’re already following me there, you’re actually probably not. I apologize for the inconvenience. Here’s an explanation.
A couple of days ago, I migrated all my followers on @mitchw@mastodon.social to @MitchW@mitchw.blog. “It’ll be great!” I said to myself. “Finally, I won’t have to cut-and-paste to multiple social media platforms to participate in all of them! Write once, read anywhere! Yippee!1”
Here’s what I soon learned:
- While micro.blog is an excellent blogging and micro.blogging service, with an outstanding management team, it’s not a great Mastodon experience. Three main reasons for that:
A. Formatting: When viewed on Mastodon, micro.blog truncates posts at 280 characters, rather than Mastodon’s standard 500. Also, micro.blog strips paragraph breaks from posts sent to Mastodon.
B. micro.blog doesn’t support boosts.
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Once you’ve migrated followers from Mastodon to micro.blog, there’s no automatic way to send them back.
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Once you’ve migrated followers from a mastodon account, that account is deactivated. I had a vague idea that I’d continue using my Mastodon account to read, boost, and reply, but that won’t work.
I expect 1.A will be corrected soon—management is On It, fixing formatting problems. Until then, I expect I’ll just manually cut-and-paste posts to micro.blog and Mastodon. Once the formatting problems are fixed, I’ll see if I can reactivate micro.blog’s otherwise excellent tool for automatically cross-posting to Mastodon.
However, I expect 1.B will never change. Boosts are antithetical to micro.blog culture. I’m ok with that.
In the long run, I’d like to see better integration between Mastodon and other services, to help folks like me maintain a presence in two or more places at once. I don’t have a clear vision of what that would look like. Maybe a micro.blog Mastodon instance that somehow syncs with micro.blog itself?
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I did not actually say “Yippee!” ↩︎
San Diego needs to build housing and plenty of it. Forget “neighborhood character” and the environment. Current conditions are a crime against humanity.
STUT: These are the stories of newly homeless San Diegans. By Gary Warth.
When Britain abolished slavery, slaveowners received compensation. But what about the enslaved people themselves? Did they get any financial reparations for the terrible crime committed against them by the slaveowners and society?
7 Reasons Why Britain Abolished Slavery. By Luke Tomes at historyhit.
How a Town Famous for Xenophobia Fell in Love With Immigrants
“We now want as many immigrants as possible,” said Bernard Thompson, the mayor of Hérouxville, Quebec, a onetime supporter of the town’s anti-immigrant code.
The Central African Republic, one of the world’s poorest countries, became one of only two nations in the world to adopt Bitcoin as a cryptocurrency. Eight months later, almost nothing has changed.
Crypto was an alternative to the CFA franc, which gives France effective control of the economies of more than 180 million people in its former colonies.
Critics say the Bitcoin transition was a gimmick to hype up interest in CAR’s own cryptocurrency, which failed.
One of the World’s Poorest Countries Put Its Faith in Crypto – Why?. By Ben Hunte at Vice World News.
My favorite part of George Santos’ self-defense is where he says he never claimed to be Jewish, he just said he was “Jew-ish.” Oy.
Jackie Hoffman steals “Glass Onion.”
Elon Musk was never a liberal, and his plans for Twitter were never benevolent. “Tech barons’ lip-service to democracy and pluralism was always conditional on preserving their own positions at the top.” By Thomas Zimmer at The Guardian.