Saw a shooting star off the coast last night. I was recording the storm blowing in and just happened to catch it!
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Category: Micro.blog
I went on a long train ride while in Colorado. The 4k/60fps option for iPhone video capture is awesome.
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Did a huge purge of my yearly/monthly subscriptions. Micro.blog premium survived. 🫡
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There are days where Micro.blog feels like an internet cheat code.
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Happy Micro Monday! It’s coffee day. Honorable mention to some of my favorite MB folks: [@petebrown](https://micro.blog/petebrown) [@val](https://micro.blog/val) and [@bryan](https://micro.blog/bryan).
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📸 Entry for #mbapr Day 27 – surprise. A tornado watch is suddenly rolling in. Keeping an eye on it while catching up on [@coreint](https://micro.blog/coreint).
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One thing I like about the Bluesky / Micro.blog integration is the host name verification. Micro.blog feels a lot more like the “source of truth” when all of your reflected posts on Bluesky are from your domain name.
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Focusing on leveraging Micro.blog for fedi and bsky since it offers nice integrations.
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Testing out Bluesky cross-posting from Micro.blog. 🤔
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When To Pay For Software
I recently let my Discord Nitro subscription expire, and this is a tough one for me. I use Discord quite often, but find paying for it very hard to justify due to its privacy policy and investment structure. It has become a rather ubiquitous tool in recent years, which makes me wonder if it is going to result in yet another Twitter fiasco.
Generally, I am ok with paying (and donating) for software services. They have to meet some level criteria for me to feel comfortable, though. For example, if the software and/or service is:
- Open Source / Open Platform
- Lemmy (and selective instances)
- Mastodon (and selective instances)
- Proprietary and/or Centralized, but operated in good faith, with a history and face
- Kagi
- MarsEdit
- Micro.blog
- Ivory
- Privacy respecting by design, with mixed open source / proprietary status
- 1Password
- Proton Mail
- iCloud (select services with advanced security enabled)
Discord is a prime example of something that does not quite fit into any of these categories. Discord does not respect privacy. Discord is not Open Source. Discord is not decentralized. Instead, it is held up by a combination of paid users and investors. This is enough to chase me away. I’m waiting for the inevitable sale of the platform and its data to a big tech conglomerate. The other shoe has yet to drop. Let’s just hope it isn’t placed into the hands of another Elon Musk.
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