Hi Nitin,

I think this will give you a feed without beer.

https://islandinthenet.com/?cat=-5672&feed=rss2

I wrote an open letter to Manton Reese -- which was an update of an earlier post -- explaining my decision to leave. From my perspective, micro.blog is just another siloed communication platform like Twitter, Facebook, Google+.

I already have a blog which has been around for 15 years. I didn't need the micro.blog blogging platform. I was already part of a set of communities on Twitter none of which I could easily find on micro.blog. Manton intentionally left hashtags off of micro.blog and there was/is no way to search for people with similar interests to mine.

Micro.blog feels too much like developers talking to developers and some of the criticisms of the micro.blog were ones I had issues with as well.

What you may not know is that I was a backer of the Kickstarter to create micro.blog and that was how I learned about the IndieWeb. I thought long and hard about keeping my account. It was several months after emailing Manton about my decision to leave before I actually deleted my account.

That reminds me, I need to login to Kickstarter and ask Manton about the status of the book. Technically Manton has not completed fulfilment of the Kickstarter. The book is very late.

NOTE: PhoneBoy has an extensive blog post on the things he tried with micro.blog and his existing blog: https://phoneboy.com/2018/01/13/a-self-hosted-wordpress-blog-with-micro-blog.

I enjoyed the Was This Worth Doing? section.

While I have no intention of violating the community guidelines, the way "abuse" gets treated is very much the same way Twitter and Facebook handle it:

I highlight this because while you may be escaping the toxicness that exists on Facebook and Twitter by using micro.blog, you are not escaping oversight of your communications. You are merely changing who is performing that oversight.