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- Incredibly easy to sign up if you already have an Instagram account. This is a massive boost to the platform. Bluesky’s invite system is not allowing it to grow fast enough. Mastodon is still too confusing for the average person.
- There’s some things to work out with showing accounts you are not following in your main feed. This is already upsetting folks.
- Seeing an influx of people I used to follow on Twitter who had not fully invested in Mastodon, Bluesky, or others. This is a good thing.
- ActivityPub integration will be a good thing. I’m not on the anti-Meta train with this one. Sure, they are a big greedy corporation, but I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt and trust they’ll implement it in a meaningful way.
- Where I think they are struggling out of the gate is how do you convince Instagram users to utilize it? It’s a home for ex-Twitter folks, etc. but not for just an Instagram user. This seems like a clash of identities that they will have to tackle.
My company is very much Microsoft oriented. Given that we have Edge installed as the default, with options to add others. I must admit I do like Edge. Vertical tabs is fantastic, I find it’s sync more reliable than Firefox’s, comparable to Safari’s.
Happy to support @danielpunkass with a MarsEdit5 purchase. When I first started this blog I didn’t think I’d “need” any extra features or anything like that. Happy to have grown and learned about many new things in my time on Micro.blog. Thanks for all your work Daniel!
I have a few Funkos in the house. Decided to try the image generator for me and the results are too funny 😂
I really like Bear Notes but I just don’t think I do enough notetaking to continue paying 🤔
Quite enjoy the column view in Reminders in iOS 17 - easy to use, simple, and clean.
I really wish I could turn off App Shortcuts in Shortcuts - I’m never going to use any of these.
A little tired of my time wasting on Instagram. Signing up for Pixelfed to help force myself to use the point and shoot camera I just ordered. Any tips for using it or folks on Micro.blog who are also on a Pixelfed server?
Very interesting concept from Jason Yuan and Sam Whitmore. new.computer looks like a practical use of AI to complement our lives. Very intrigued, and will be following closely.
Giving Mastodon another in-depth look. Pretty tired of Twitter’s amount of clutter. Wish I could get MLB and NFL content completely off it though to fully make my switch.
Why does Netflix default to playing foreign language films dubbed in English? So frustrating.
A few days later and I am now more unsure on Threads. It’s mostly brands and people who aren’t used to posting in a text format.
BlueSky is more like Twitter in its users, but that’s not necessarily a good thing.
My Quick Thoughts on Threads
Sometimes I go through apps on my devices and try to consolidate them into less apps. Today, I got rid of JustWatch by moving my entire watchlist over to Letterboxd.
Yes, it stinks there’s no TV shows on Letterboxd, but the streaming services do a pretty good job of tracking those already.
Having been on vacation and lowering my Reddit usage due to the treatment of Apollo, I am glad to report that I don’t miss many things from it this week. Plenty of other things to spend my time wisely on.
TIL you can pass Bear links into Apple Reminders and essentially sync your to-do lists between the two apps.