Trying out Sunlit…
One thing I hadn’t appreciated when I signed up to Micro.Blog is the variety of apps that are available in addition to the main Micro.Blog app. One of them is called Epilogue and is a way to track your books –the ones you are reading, the ones you want to read etc.
The other one is Sunlit, which is for sharing photos. It seems a bit short on features right now, but I like the idea of a separate app that feeds into your main blog.
Photo taken on St David’s Day in Cardiff, Wales. Shot on a Nikon F80 with 50mm F1.8, Ilford XP2 film.
Those of you who may have known me from Mastodon, or from Wordpress before the Mullenweg Skirmishes --that’s what I’m going to call it from now on. I found myself in a place were I didn’t see much point trying to carve out my own little space on an internet I was convinced would be overwhelmed by AI Slop before the decade was out.
Between the days of compact cassettes and the arrival of the iPod, there was no ideal way of carrying your music around with you. Sure, the Sony Walkman was legendary in the portable music world, but cassettes were still a nuisance that would chew up if you so much as looked at them the wrong way.
Also, you couldn’t jump to the track you wanted to listen to and too much messing around would see you having to untangle the tape from the read heads in the player.
There’s a lot to be said for having access to nearly all the music that has ever existed since the dawn of time, for ten bucks a month.
Then again, if the thought of waking up to discover your favourite album had been wiped from the face of the Earth brings you out in an icy cold sweat, perhaps it is time to rethink your relationship with the songs you hold dear.