social platforms

i often find myself switching platforms because i don't feel like any of them are a perfect fit. i've even attempted to bring all of the work onto myself, building personal social platforms but to no avail. i've realized the solution is extremely simple yet almost no platform can provide that. hopefully the pub can do that for me. :)

starbreaker

I like having my own website with a blog, but if I want to share my status I think a "now page" is sufficient.

"about now pages"

This one is mine.

my "now" page

As you can see, it doesn't take much.

petpave

love you now page, i'd add like, but button is missing here :)

starbreaker

Thanks, but don't worry about likes. This isn't the Fediverse, let alone corporate parasocial media. Just bookmark the page or follow my RSS feed instead. :)

Yeah now pages are awesome, I used to have one but didn't keep up with it enough lol

inquiry

To me platforms seem all but irrelevant relative to quantity of quality people per platform capita.

This Pub isn't much of a platform, yet I stop by all the time knowing that if there's something new, it'll all but certainly be worth reading.

(He says, wincing a bit over having used "all but" in consecutive sentence....)

I agree. I've realized things like Hacker News bring me the most joy and value, while still allowing me to be mindful. That's the only thing I check regularly anymore simply because it brings me joy and doesn't suck me in.

inquiry

For me it's an empty vim buffer. :-)

tffb

~jr, hi!

I feel the same. I used to want to be able to have a one-off status site, like Twitter, but smaller, more simplistic, and self-hosted. I tried building something akin to that, but I gave up the project.

After a while, I lost the "urge", the need, to leave any type of update online, other than a response via IRC chat, or e-mail, or blog "comment" response (such as here on M.p).

I think the concept (turned-reality) of having a status/microblog..."thing" in one's life was/is likely only pertinent to site that needs updates, data, engagement, etc. Outside of the monetized social media sites, they (small updates) serve very little purpose.

Nevertheless, good luck on what you find, if anything, and all the best! :)

agreed! i like the idea of having timely "blog posts", if you will, but i just can't handle the maddening consumption cycle of traditional social media. even mastodon became too much for me. i may still look into developing something more formal, but for now i'm happy with this.

thanks, you too! :)

tffb

same here. I left Mastodon as a transition *from* Twitter, which is like smoking ultra light cigarettes from having harfed down a pack of non-filters per day, haha. Mastodon is cool in some ways, and it IS "early days Twitter", as some said, but the caveat is, it's early days TWITTER. Self-fulfilling prophecy there.

Smaller sites like M.p, and just person-to-person conversations always pay off more (immediately, and in a good way!) than having "mass messages" go out to everyone, everywhere.

Good to see ya. Later!