@Nick_Stevens_graphics What competitors are you referring to?
LinkedIn Newsletters are spam and a scam: https://journal.jatan.space/linkedin-newsletters-are-spam-and-a-scam/
Moon Monday #191: A stream of CLPS and Artemis lunar mission updates: https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-191/
Moon Monday #184: Funding farside ventures, lunar traffic, and Moon Monday in video! https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-184/
Life’s mission: Write words that matter, and age well.
@jtr Yes.
Imagine living in a time where saying a post on the Internet is written by a human has value in itself… even if negative.
Smash your worries away: https://thoughts.jatan.space/posts/smash-your-worries-away
Headlines that re-kill hope for humanity with a single word.
Just read my blog: https://jatan.space 🌗
Today’s achievement includes self delivering an un-parcelable café mocha on bike on Indian roads without a single spill.
@the Yeah. If Chang’e 6 was a NASA mission, it would’ve received way more coverage and technical praise.
There’s now a comprehensive video on China’s insane scientific and technological advances in exploring the Moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yrO_bD9YXo
It’s based on 7 editions of my Moon Monday blog+newsletter, made in collaboration with the popular YouTube channel “The Space Race”. They did a great job at adapting my writing to something I’d never do.
For those of you who wanted me to make videos, this is as close as you get and you will ever get. 🌝
Moon Monday but in video!: https://thoughts.jatan.space/posts/moon-monday-but-in-video
Writing headlines in the style of “Friends” is fun: https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-183/
@pratik Replies are a good way to discover people, yes, but I think there’s room between that and an intentional lurker. Especially when there is no like button (which I personally don't want either).
@pratik Yes, I agree but that’s kind of what I’m saying: most posts on Micro.blog are microposts precisely because the Timeline stream and posting UI encourages that.
@manton What do you think of Micro.blog showing a private followers list similar to what you already do with email subscribers? I don't need to show my followers publicly but would like to know for myself who follows me for discovery and sometimes for safety.
@pratik Because it’s a continuous stream of posts unlike, say, a feed reader, wherein you manually navigate to the next and previous posts. The former ends up optimizing for packing the “best part” in the first 100 or 200 characters to reduce chances of not being missed. The latter simply displays the whole post without a click through.
The satisfaction of sugarcane juice after a badminton sprint; cold-pressed cane fused with ginger and lime. 😌
How will ISRO go from Chandrayaan 3 to sending an Indian to the Moon?
I have compiled and contextualized everything we know about ISRO’s plans for launching increasingly complex robotic Chandrayaan missions, where human spaceflight comes in, and what the challenges are: https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-183/
🌏🚀🧑🏽🚀 …………..………….. 🌗
Moon Monday #183 and Indian Space Progress #17: The one where Chandrayaan and Gaganyaan converge https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-183/
@pratik @ronkjeffries I too think 500 is a better limit especially if casual microblogging is the point (and so you need to think less about a length constraint).
However, I'm personally finding the popular single stream Timeline view itself to be inefficient and encouraging shorter posts but that’s likely just me.
I don’t prefer speaking at... https://thoughts.jatan.space/posts/2024-07-05-i-don-t-prefer-speaking?1720199728
Because the internet needs to be weird, stat-less, non-performative, fun at least for one, and personal: https://thoughts.jatan.space
Welcome to Jatan the human: https://thoughts.jatan.space
Let’s explore our Moon’s mountains! 🌖 https://thoughts.jatan.space/posts/let-s-explore-our-moon-s-mountains?1720093140
Rules to effectively use social media https://thoughts.jatan.space/posts/rules-to-effectively-use-social-media?1720082210
In praise of Bear https://journal.jatan.space/in-praise-of-bear/
Moon Monday #182: Lunar samples on Earth, a Canadian robotic arm, lander testing, and more https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-182/
My Threads profile is now federating at @themoonmehta, which means you can now follow it from not just Threads but Mastodon, Micro.blog and many more platforms part of the Fediverse: https://journal.jatan.space/welcome-to-the-fediverse/
Today I’m starting a little monthly newsletter for my friends on the Web, a calmer way to stay in touch against the slurp of social media. Here’s the first edition sharing notable things I’ve been up to or enjoyed lately: https://journal.jatan.space/newsletter-for-friends-01 📝✨
@pratik I was a little confused myself about keeping it or not, which is why a clear announcement never came. Still confused about microblogging to be honest. Can’t put my finger on it.
@pratik A while back, yes. Had put redirects for a while before doing so.
@V_ Thank you!
Yes, I’ve mostly settled in now, thanks. :)
@me Yes!
@pratik It’s a nice feature.
@agrmohit That distinction based on follow priority makes sense. Though I sometimes add RSS sources and mute them on my reader because while I don’t want to know about their new posts, I want to be able to search their content. It’s a different kind of low priority follow that only RSS seems to allow ATM.
I’m excited too to see what Ghost comes up with. And if feed readers at large start integrating ActivityPub, it could be really interesting.
@supremus I’m in Halasuru. Been nice and quiet so far. And yes, I explicitly avoided Whitefield LOL.
@pratik Yep, seems like it.
@jean Thank you, Jean! Your photos from the Oregon coast are always great.
@pratik Thank you. And, yes.
@pratik One more thing to add to all that. I suggested Jannis to offer a Lite/Starter plan too, for people who just want to blog and might send low volume email at best. And it’s now live at ₹300/month for India and $4/month in the US! https://magicpages.co/#pricing
@abc MagicPages has been pretty reliable for me so far. And Jannis is really helpful whenever issues come up.
@soaproot Thanks! Was hoping it might be useful to someone else.
@pratik Yes, Ghost Pro doesn’t offer regional pricing at all. Even without regional pricing, the biggest monetary difference stems from Magic pages having no caps on the number of email subscribers versus Ghost and most other newsletter providers, where you keep paying more as subscribers grow. Here instead you’re charged for actual email sends only, with 10k included at no extra cost. Even in the case of my space blog with a large email list and frequent email sends, it’s $25 vs $60–80.
@pradx It's a little ironic that it's a thread instead of a blog post! Anyway, I think the crux of what is being conveyed is true in some ways but it also depends on if you want an infinite audience or not. One can also only write for media publications and get more readers that way instead of building their own across all social networks. Automation tools help maintain minimal presence (that's what I do).
To be clear, this is not an ideal outcome. But it’s better than the last one. My empathy still lies with writers who are unable to move away from Substack. I still plan to, but carefully.
What you should really read instead of my microposts are my more thoughtful longform blogs on space and all else. You can subscribe to them directly via email or RSS, natch: https://jatan.space/subscribe
I do auto-share their posts to as many social networks as possible via RSS + dlvr.it but good luck coming across them in the noisy, ad-riddled, algorithmically-twisted, influencer-influenced feeds of social media.