[[2024 Cafe Posts]] I do not really like Bluesky or Mastodon. I've explained why [[Why I Dropped Bluesky|I don't like Bluesky]] before, and I've **definitely** talked about why I don't like Mastodon before, lmfao. I've got accounts on both just to maintain a public presence and see what my friends are up to, but I hated bouncing between both apps to keep up with what everyone was doing, and sometimes I found myself making the same post on both, which felt silly and redundant. I then remembered that **Micro.blog** exists, and that it allows you to cross-post on both sites simultaneously. I decided to give it a whirl, and while I liked it at first, I walked away from it not super impressed. First the good: I think micro.blog is very cool as a piece of tech! I think it's a great answer to Cohost-like posting, if you miss that. I think it succeeds as a blogging and writing tool, even if the userbase itself is a little too tech-white-y for my tastes (but I mean, so was Cohost so I bet some of y'all will like that too LMFAO). It was super easy to set up and start cross-posting. But that's where the positives end. The actual act of cross-posting is nice enough, although links didn't work very well on Bluesky. But the real issue is that it really can't handle a cross-viewing experience. By this I mean, I was hoping I could simply log into micro.blog and look at all my friends' posts without bouncing between both sites. But it's pretty much impossible. My friends would post pictures that I couldn't see without going to Bluesky, because the images wouldn't show up on Micro.blog. Even after following their accounts on my Micro.blog, they wouldn't show up in my timeline. Mastodon worked a tad bit better, but not particularly so. The thing is that even though micro.blog is great for blogging, I already have [[Taniyn Quest|this blog]]. I don't need another blogging site if it can't really provide for me on a cross-viewing front. I also never got notifications when people replied to me through micro.blog, meaning I'd have to actively keep checking the blog - which is a waste of time - or go to the websites themselves to check - which defeats the purpose of this whole experiment. So yeah. The Micro.blog experiment was a bit of a failure. But trying to figure it out again reminded me that I'm kind of just...over microblogging as a whole. Even if I could have gotten the cross-posting to work, my brain has just been rewired away from this format of posting. I don't like the format, I don't like how much it makes my [[Dealing with Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria|RSD]] flare up, and I don't like the way it makes me think as a person. I simply do not like it, and that's okay. I'm glad I'm cognizant of this fact, because it means that I can have a healthy relationship with these sites - and by that I mean, check them infrequently, and post in them even less. But hey, let me know if you got Micro.blog to work for you!