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This is not for the people who are complaining about the high price. Did anyone question what price we paid for free product like fb/insta ? Clearly this produc

This is not for the people who are complaining about the high price. Did anyone question what price we paid for free product like fb/insta ? Clearly this product is in infancy and trying to attract early adopters. In future price may come down and ui/ux will get better but it’s clearly not for everyone looking to escape into social media as entertainment.

marcus_holmes 7y ago
I'm totally the target market for this. FB is just f$$ing depressing, and I only check in every couple of days now. I would happily pay for a regular dopamine fix that didn't include a shower of muppets saying things I find mildly irritating at best. I'm also totally over the BBC, ABC (Australia, not USA), and other MSM. Again, shower of muppets etc etc. What I really want is the early internet back again. I want some blogs to read, that are witty, intelligent and erudite. I want a feed reader that will let me know when they update. I want a news source that is likewise witty, erudite, intelligent and sceptical (the foremost asset of any journalist should be scepticism). I think I'll just go and find a bunch of blogs to follow. And start my own again. F$ck Facebook.
chipotle_coyote 7y ago
"If you're complaining about the price, this isn't for you" is kind of a truism, but I'm not sure it's a helpful truism in this case. At a moment where the phrase "subscription fatigue" is sweeping into popular discourse, $100 a year is a hell of a big ask for a nascent social network. App.Net couldn't convince people to pay $50 a year earlier this decade; today Micro.blog is building a cult following as a paid Twitter alternative, but it's very consciously not trying to take on Twitter scale-wise -- and it's actually a full blog hosting service for $60 a year (with a free tier if you're already hosting your own blog you want to integrate with it).
- indigodaddy 7y ago
  Is WP the only blog that can hook into the micro.blog platform? Any list of supported blog engines/platforms?
  - grzm 7y ago
    https://help.micro.blog/2017/micropub-clients/ https://help.micro.blog/2017/micropub-clients/
  - detaro 7y ago
    As far as I know, you "hook a blog into it" by telling it which RSS feed(s) to copy from your site, so pretty much any blog engine will work. It also supports a few more advanced things like Webmentions, there support is thinner, but possibly can be added.

marcus_holmes 7y ago

I'm totally the target market for this. FB is just f$$ing depressing, and I only check in every couple of days now. I would happily pay for a regular dopamine fix that didn't include a shower of muppets saying things I find mildly irritating at best. I'm also totally over the BBC, ABC (Australia, not USA), and other MSM. Again, shower of muppets etc etc. What I really want is the early internet back again. I want some blogs to read, that are witty, intelligent and erudite. I want a feed reader that will let me know when they update. I want a news source that is likewise witty, erudite, intelligent and sceptical (the foremost asset of any journalist should be scepticism). I think I'll just go and find a bunch of blogs to follow. And start my own again. F$ck Facebook.

chipotle_coyote 7y ago

"If you're complaining about the price, this isn't for you" is kind of a truism, but I'm not sure it's a helpful truism in this case. At a moment where the phrase "subscription fatigue" is sweeping into popular discourse, $100 a year is a hell of a big ask for a nascent social network. App.Net couldn't convince people to pay $50 a year earlier this decade; today Micro.blog is building a cult following as a paid Twitter alternative, but it's very consciously not trying to take on Twitter scale-wise -- and it's actually a full blog hosting service for $60 a year (with a free tier if you're already hosting your own blog you want to integrate with it).

indigodaddy 7y ago
Is WP the only blog that can hook into the micro.blog platform? Any list of supported blog engines/platforms?
- grzm 7y ago
  https://help.micro.blog/2017/micropub-clients/ https://help.micro.blog/2017/micropub-clients/
- detaro 7y ago
  As far as I know, you "hook a blog into it" by telling it which RSS feed(s) to copy from your site, so pretty much any blog engine will work. It also supports a few more advanced things like Webmentions, there support is thinner, but possibly can be added.