A few quick Micro.blog thoughts (after having spent a lot of time on Mastodon over the past few months):
- It’d be nice to be able to add (or subscribe to) saved searches in my timeline. Is there anything that might come close to this with the existing functionality?
- I miss tags for discoverability. In other people’s posts primarily, but also for making it easy to rediscover my own.
- With tags in mind, I need to grok how categories work here.
- Wouldn’t it be cool to see some visualisation of threading in conversations?. Or maybe something like the visual indication of per-message responses we get in most modern messaging apps? I’m a little confused by the way conversations are flat, with replies that include specific people’s handles… and how you when reply to a response that should be targeted at more than one person, you only get one person’s handle in that message by default… am I supposed to add the handles of the other people I want to point that response at? If I don’t include other people’s handles, do they just not see the response? Have Twitter, messaging and Mastodon broken my brain and rewired my expectations for threaded conversations?
Note: this is all after about half a day’s worth of usage of Micro.blog. Entirely likely that I need to adjust my thinking to fit…