Micro Social : The Launch

Micro Social started as a personal project to solve a simple problem — I wanted a better way to use micro.blog. Something that felt more customisable, modern, and streamlined, while still staying true to the simplicity of the platform. Why Build Micro Social? Over time, I found myself wanting more control over my micro.blog experience. I wrote about some of these frustrations and ideas along the way: Making Micro Social – How this app came to be.

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12 Feb 2025

🔗 Valve Seemingly Bans All Steam Games That Require Watching Advertisements To Play - GameSpot

Steam does not contain paid advertising, and that advertising-based revenue models are not allowed on the platform. It further states that developers are also prohibited from using advertising as a way to provide value to players, such as giving players an in-game reward for watching or engaging with ads.

This is the way. If only Apple would also follow suit

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10 Feb 2025

🔗 How Google turned ‘I’m not a robot’ into a massive surveillance system

By 2025, reCAPTCHA is easily defeated by bots. Yet Google continues to offer it because reCAPTCHA has evolved into a tracking tool that collects user data and generates billions in revenue for Google, according to Chuppl. “Re-captcha takes a pixel by pixel fingerprint of your browser, a realtime map of everything you do on the internet.”

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09 Feb 2025

My App Store Fight

For years I have been, secretly and sometime publicly, one of this people that thought the Apple was fine. It gave developers the reach they needed to potentially get to millions of customers, and the 30% that changed for the privilege was fine. That was until this week and my eyes were opened to the stress and hassle needed. I’m not a developer by any means, I’m getting an app for micro.

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09 Feb 2025

I Tried My Best

I remember the first time we spoke to a specialist about my daughter Lucie’s mobility like it was yesterday. He was unbelievingly frank for a medical professional. In a world of maybes and possibilities, he gave us truth, and I really appreciated that. He spoke to us and explained in no uncertain terms that she may never walk. What we came away with was a list of things for us to do.

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06 Feb 2025

Problematic Recommendations

I wasn’t aware of of Pika Pulse until the announcement of it shutting down recently. It sounds like a fantastic feature, and the developers of Pika seem like excellent people. For the past week or so I’ve been thinking about recommendations due to my work on Micro Social and including micro.blogs Discover feeds. There’s lots I want to do with it, but there’s always ethical things to consider. Once you start to use the word recommended, or any simile, you get bogged down.

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04 Feb 2025

The Imposter

As you might already know, I’m developing an iOS app for Micro.blog. It happened quite accidentally, really. I initially created a basic app for myself, which I used for a while, gradually adding features until it became something I thought others would enjoy. Now, it’s at a stage where I could take action, but I feel so much like an imposter that I can’t bring myself to do it. I believe we all experience imposter syndrome at some point in our lives, and right now, it’s really holding me back.

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04 Feb 2025

Micro Social: Reading And Books

There are many people out there that don’t realise just how much micro.blog can do, and one of my favourite things is to use it for is reading. It is a great resource for finding recommendations through all reading posts tagged 📚 and tracking the books I read through the year. So in Micro Social, you will find a toggle to turn on the Books Tab. This works with the standard three bookshelves that every user has on micro.

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31 Jan 2025

Micro Social: Your Timeline

Along with ensuring you can follow a conversation with ease, one of the biggest things I wanted from Micro Social is the ability to be customisable. To be able to shape the way the timeline of posts can be consumed. To get exactly what you want at any point. Here’s the timeline on Micro Social. With a range of filters available, you can limit and expand the posts you see depending on your mood.

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27 Jan 2025

Micro Social: Threading

Despite possibly picking the wrong time to work on micro.blog related things, I’m determined to push on a work in public to create something worthwhile. Anyway, my first target was threading, it’s one of my biggest frustrations on micro.blog and sometimes makes conversations challenging to follow, so getting this correct and intuitive is important to me. When accessing a post that is a reply now, the post view displays the post you tapped on accented slightly.

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23 Jan 2025