Introducing Micro Gram

Micro Social has always been about making Micro.blog a more engaging and customisable experience, and Micro Gram is the next step in that journey. Designed to bring a more intuitive way to browse, interact with, and appreciate photos, Micro Gram introduces a new level of usability to your timeline. Whether you’re simply scrolling through posts or leaving meaningful replies, Micro Gram makes it easier and more enjoyable than ever. A Customisable Photo Timeline At its core, Micro Gram gives users more control over how they view images on Micro.

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17 Feb 2025

Micro Social v1.5: New Features Alert

Rolling out today is a big update to Micro Social, adding several new features that have spent a long time in development. Micro Social Plus Micro Social Plus is a one-time purchase that unlocks exclusive features—no subscriptions, no expiry, just more ways to enhance your Micro.blog experience. 🔹 Micro Gram – A customisable Instagram-style photo timeline, making browsing and replying to photos more intuitive than ever. Plus, introduce a new way to engage with images using customisable photo reactions—tap the heart and leave a personal response.

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17 Feb 2025

Micro Social: Smart Replies & Mentions

One conversation on micro.blog brought this feature to life, but it took a long while to build and get right. The simple frustration of being able to reply to multiple people but do it correctly has been an issue for a while on micro.blog and Smart Mentions is here to help. With Smart Mentions enabled when tapping a reply to a thread you will be given the option of who to reply to.

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12 Feb 2025

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