manton 1 year ago

Kimberly Hirsch shares LGBTQ+ organizations to donate to: "GLSEN is my go-to resource for LGBTQ+ issues in K-12 education. The Trevor Project is a suicide prevention and crisis intervention program for LGBTQ+ young people." 🏳️‍🌈

Kimberly Hirsh

Kimberly Hirsh

Information is my love language! GLSEN is my go-to resource for LGBTQ+ issues in K-12 education. The Trevor Project is a suicide prevention and...

Glisten

Homepage - Glisten

Glisten: Championing LGBTQ+ issues in K-12 education. Together we can transform our nation's schools into the safe and affirming environment a...

The Trevor Project

Support Homepage

The Trevor Project is a non-profit suicide prevention organization that provides 24/7 crisis support services, research, and advocacy for LGBTQ+ yo...

manton 1 year ago

Vincent Ritter: Silence. I wasn’t sure that Vincent would blog something, but I’m glad he did. Personal blogs can help us connect with people, walk a little bit in their shoes, even if we don’t always agree on everything.

Updates & Blog by Vincent Ritter

Dad, husband, and software creator.

manton 1 year ago

I’ve now read Adam Newbold’s post Accountability and I will reply tomorrow. I still have him muted but I’ve caught up on most of his posts and boosts. Thanks for your patience. I’ve been doing this a long time, hopefully one more day won’t kill the platform that I’ve dedicated my career to.

Neatnik

manton 1 year ago

Worked mostly behind the scenes today, a lot in email. I’m planning a couple new posts for tomorrow. If I post them now I’ll never get a break. 🙂 Also some private messages of support. There are people who think our mission here is valuable but they don’t want to get caught up in a public debate. ❤️

manton 1 year ago

Congrats to Daniel Supernault on the Kickstarter! It’s great timing for Pixelfed and I expect it’s going to well exceed its goal. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks

manton 1 year ago

In an attempt to turn lemons into lemonade, I’m reviewing our community guidelines to see what we can improve. We can do a better job of highlighting that Micro.blog can be a safe place for the LGBTQ+ community. What I said in the Kickstarter video in 2017 is still true: indie blogs, safe community.

Micro.blog Help Center

ℹ️ Community guidelines

Introduction At Micro.blog, we believe there needs to be a line between the social network and the content on your own site. Your website is your o...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manton/indie-microblogging-owning-your-short-form-writing

manton 1 year ago

In 30 years of working on apps and the web, I’ve never had a falling out like this with another developer. It’s depressing. There are lessons here in why social media brings out the worst in us, amplifying disagreements. Things I’ve written a lot about! But seeing it happen live is something else.

manton 1 year ago

I’ve had to mute Adam Newbold. We’re a couple days in to Trump’s second term and we’re fighting amongst ourselves instead of working. In one day we went from friendly competition and shared values to an unrecoverable train wreck. I have so many things to improve in Micro.blog. Hope to make some progress on... www.manton.org

Manton Reece

manton 1 year ago

A few people seem confused about why I might prefer a conversation to continue in email. It’s a better place to find common ground. Also helps avoid saying anything disparaging about someone in public. We have enough threads on social media that escalated to hurtful comments. I stand by this.

manton 1 year ago

Went down the rabbit hole of old links and started listening to this episode of Core Int about Steve Jobs. 12 years ago. Blog posts and podcasts are an amazing snapshot in time.

Core Intuition

Episode 59: Remembering Steve Jobs - Core Intuition

Daniel and Manton remember Steve Jobs, who passed away one year ago today.

manton 1 year ago

When I quit Twitter, I had about 10,000 tweets. Not many by today’s standards. In all of that time, I remember deleting… one tweet. It was at WWDC. I’d like to think I rarely delete posts because I still stand by almost everything I wrote. But also, there’s always room in a blog for a correction.

Manton Reece - Tweets

manton 1 year ago

I’ve been personally attacked a bunch today over a thread and private email that went off the rails, more personal criticism than I’ve received in the entire 8 years of running Micro.blog. A little stunned. But there have also been some amazing, thoughtful posts about what we’re doing. Thank you.

manton 1 year ago

Wrote a draft post, deleted it. Trying to remind myself that I do not need to have the last word on every topic. Sometimes it’s better to just let things go.

manton 1 year ago

Usually on election night and the day after, I dig into county stats, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it in November. Finally looked up my precinct here in Austin: 84% for Kamala Harris. 🇺🇸

manton 1 year ago

Techdirt covers the empty promise from Mark Zuckerberg on the fact-checking team, including this comment: "Texas is, apparently, famous for its unbiased, neutral residents, as compared to California, where it is constitutionally impossible to be unbiased." 🤪

Techdirt

The Emptiness Of Zuck’s Promise To Move ‘Biased’ Trust & Safety From California To Texas

I know that Mark Zuckerberg no longer likes fact-checking, but it’s not going to stop me from continuing to fact-check him. I’m going to rate h...

manton 1 year ago

Strata 1.2 for iOS is now available. This release adds a new tab bar with bookmarks and highlights. Going forward we can do more with bookmarks in Strata without complicating Micro.one and Micro.blog.

Strata for Micro.blog

I created Micro.blog. I also have two podcasts: Core Intuition and Timetable.

manton 1 year ago

My answer to almost any societal or political problem is: more blogs, more communities. It’s an oversimplification but a lot of great things come from this first step, to slowly pull away from centralized control and big platforms. When I don’t know what to do, I do this.

manton 1 year ago

I noticed that Micro.blog was spending a lot of time dealing with files in Hugo’s static folder in custom themes, an artifact of how Micro.blog has to manage files across multiple servers. The optimization to make this faster introduced a couple new problems. Everything is resolved now. Fun morning!

manton 1 year ago

Reminder that when you’re angry, lashing out at people who are not the problem is counterproductive. It sometimes feels like we’re all balancing on a knife’s edge. I get it. But I’m done with the outrage machine. It’s performative.

manton 1 year ago

In all the elections I could vote in where my candidate lost, I certainly felt frustrated and disappointed. My blog captures it going back to 2004. But I never felt like giving up on America because you get another shot in the midterms. Now, I don’t know. It will take decades to fix this. 🇺🇸