Sunday, 15th June, 2025

I’m not sure about this. Spent a while with micro.blog and think I’m okay with it. Gone with the micro.one subscription which is very good value at $10 a year. Doesn’t quite have everything of mb full - biggest miss for me would be no theme customisation. You can install theme plugins and do custom CSS but that’s it. A few themes have micro hooks where you can customise parts of them without messing the main theme. Can’t do that. Some have settings to change stuff in a config.json. Can’t do that. However, several stock themes are nice and think I have one. Still, can’t help think that I want to tweak it a little.

The upside is I have several apps on my phone and web for adding photos, posts, books, pages, etc. with minimal effort.

You know what though? I still don’t write anything. So why bother.

Also this site to DayOne is nice but the motivation to write here is because someone might read it. If I write to myself I know no one will read it.

I also don’t want to put “random shit” in my blog. This whole site is random shit (and it’s my blog) but I feel like it’ll mess up my main site. (Hence I never write anything there).

Like today I saw DPReview’s commentary and first look at the X-E5. I’ve been thinking about the X100 series and getting rid of my xe4 and lenses but now I’m thinking … what about the X-E5. I even quite like the film sim dial as you can save recipes to it, and I always set a hot key/button to those.

I thought about writing a post on my new main blog on micro.blog about the X-E5. But it feels pointless as it’s just me going “oh look at that (everyone already knows) maybe I should get one (no one cares) or maybe I shouldn’t (now I’m being annoying)”. Brain says: you can’t write that on your blog. It’ll be bad. It’ll look bad. What a pointless thing to do.

Meanwhile over here on Fondoftea I spend each day going “maybe this; maybe that.” and think nothing of it.

I think this is my third time trying micro.blog. I just don’t quite like it. Not sure exactly what it is, as it’s a very comprehensive service with lots of features. Im not interested in a community and when I do try I struggle to find anything. Searching my emojis is cute but nothing comes up. Searching via words also seems to have nothing. Then seeing one part of conversations appear in my feed is just weird. At least this time it’s cheaper. I suspect I won’t last.

Sometimes I think I should use mastodon and just post stuff to that. But I also don’t care or want to. I don’t want something to spend time on. I like discovering new things but I also don’t need to.

I do return to “delete it and don’t bother” from time to time. I’ve deleted apps before and then never missed them.

And so, I don’t know what I want or should do.