Collin Donnell

Mastodon and Micro.blog

Having used Mastodon and Micro.blog now, my feeling is that there’s room for both because they’re trying to do different things. Mastodon wants to be a better, distributed, and more thoughtful version of Twitter. Micro.blog is just blogging with a social layer laid on top of it. It supports using a Micro.blog hosted site as your regular blog, like Wordpress or any other system, and not engaging with the social layer at all. Or, you can put your blog wherever you like, connect it to Micro.blog, and just use it for the social layer. They both want to be more and less ambitious than one and other in entirely different ways. Mastodon wants to be bigger, where Micro.blog could stay relatively small and still be successful as long as people are using it to blog and interact.

→ 1:06 PM, Aug 20

Is there something people are using to send their Micro.blog posts to Mastodon?

→ 11:35 AM, Aug 20

Link has snapped and gone full on crazy dog doing laps around the house.

→ 11:22 AM, Aug 20

Ohh. Do I start a new a Microcast blog on Micro.blog or upgrade my current account?

→ 10:24 AM, Aug 19

Thinking of starting a microcast. Maybe 5 minutes regularly on mindfulness and meditation stuff I’m working on? Don’t know if anyone would listen to that.

→ 12:10 AM, Aug 19

My co-worker who’s in town from New York joined me at home today to work together, and Link is not having it. What. A. Brat.

→ 10:33 AM, Aug 17

Managed to wake up at a decent time today after my sleep being messed up this week. Hopefully I can make this the new pattern.

→ 10:09 AM, Aug 17

Matias mechanical keyboards feel great, but they really look like something from 2004, which is a look I don’t think a lot of people are begging for. I’m surprised they never made one that looks like it’s from 1994, since that’s a look I think people would go nuts for.

→ 12:49 PM, Aug 16

Getting my broken iPhone replaced ended up being fairly painless. Probably would only saved me twenty minutes if I’d waited for my appointment tomorrow versus walking in.

→ 5:37 PM, Aug 15

My iPhone fell in water for about half a second and stopped working entirely yesterday. Debating waiting for my genius bar appointment tomorrow or just going and trying to get in.

→ 12:46 PM, Aug 15

Could not sleep at all last night. Need to do something different today to not have the same problem.

→ 12:26 PM, Aug 15

Sarah Sanders saying she can’t guarantee Trump never said the N-word on tape means he definitely did. If they didn’t think it was coming out she’d be saying “Absolutely not! And honestly, I am OFFENDED that you would even ask. And really, that’s the real racism here.”

→ 1:27 PM, Aug 14

I’ve been taking Link out to go potty every ninety minutes and he’s just started poking at me about 2 minutes before the timer goes off. How can this tiny blonde dog tell time better than I can?

→ 1:21 PM, Aug 14

Obviously @manton is the hero here, but I did imagine him tenting his fingers like Mr. Burns as he described on the most recent Core Intuition how every mistake Twitter has made has gone exactly as he hoped 😈 coreint.org/2018/08/e…

→ 1:13 PM, Aug 14

“We aren’t fancy here. We just call things what they are. It’s a stick. It computes. Deal with it. It has 32 storage. 32 what’s of storage? Fuck you, princess.”

www.intel.com/content/w…

→ 12:57 PM, Aug 14

Is there a stage of moving where you dump out a couple of boxes to find something and then your new place is a complete disaster zone you must rebuild? Also, I need some art and I have no idea where to look.

→ 11:48 AM, Aug 14

It’s sort of interesting that I have so many more people following me on Twitter than Micro.blog, but if I post the same thing to both, I get way more responses and discussion on the latter.

→ 11:46 AM, Aug 14

What is a fact based right-leaning publication that a liberal like me could read to be aware of what conservatives are thinking without having to parse out coded language and conspiracy theories?

→ 9:27 PM, Aug 13

Link (my dachshund) hurt his foot yesterday and had to be rushed to the vet, but he’s looking much better today, thankfully.

→ 8:31 PM, Aug 13

Back to work today after a two week break, and getting settled back into what I was working on. Feels nice to be working in my new office, since I haven’t really gotten to much since I moved. Not having my living room double as my office and workout room is a nice improvement.

→ 1:10 PM, Aug 13

Set up Tweet Delete to automatically delete anything I post to Twitter after 30 days. Maybe I’ll be sad someday not to be able to look back on what I was saying in 2009, but the direction I’m going is to post to places I control first, so maybe not.

→ 1:09 PM, Aug 13

Checked out my local Soto Zen group today for morning meditation and dharma talk. Will definitely be going back.

→ 5:27 PM, Aug 12