Thanks for writing this. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and I agree 100% with what you’ve said in the post. It truly reinforced my decision to join Micro.blog after quitting all social media in 2017.

@apoorplayer I truly believed a decade ago that social media giants would begin offering a more respectful product where users could create communities open or private without ads, invasive tracking or overreaching privacy violations but it’s only gotten worse.

I’ve gone through the same thought process. I’m retired now, so I have no further need for commercialized social media. Micro.blog fits my retirement lifestyle so well! I don’t consider myself a technology geek, but I’ve been on computers since the Kaypro 2, and the level of disillusion I have after 40 years of using technology is probably not quantifiable.

Just read your Micro.blog review and completely agree. My shared WordPress hosting is expiring next month, and with all the recent hullabaloo surrounding it, I decided to move on. That pushed me headfirst into Micro.blog, and I’ve imported everything over here. Very happy to be here!

@apoorplayer ..and to your point, there’s a great deal of us who think we need to be on Facebook but in reality (no matter the age) it just isn’t true. I talk to my family on the telephone more than I ever did when I was”saw them” on Facebook all day.

@mlm361 I’d also much rather give money to Micro.blog than a big hosting company or to wordpress.com directly. I honestly don’t believe that wordpress actually cares, as a company about blogging anymore. Pure blogging as a love of words is not something they’re interested in.