Gregory's ServerI've been lucky enough to make a number of friends from #blogging. This is a bit of a feel good post about how social media isn't the only way to meet new people.
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  @kev Thanks for the mention, Kev! I’ve truly enjoyed my email conversations with both yourself and everyone else I’ve reached out to—or vice versa. Blogging is a medium that promotes rich and thoughtful communication, in general but especially via email. Your analogy of sitting down for coffee is so apt, and like the physical meetup email promotes pleasant, asynchronous conversation. Being able to relax and cogitate over this “virtual coffee” is a wonderful experience. Long live the blog.  @kev I forgive you for not adding me to the list, because that's what friends do :BlobhajHeart: @kev I just fear that I may get lost in your inbox, but I guess that'll change now, I promise @kev how was I supposed to know if you haven't made any blogs about that—Or at least your search engine doesn't show it :blobcatderpy: @joel *ahem* click the link from 2020 *ahem* https://kevquirk.com/email-is-not-broken > To be clear, I'm not one of those people that has lots of unread mail. I'm a zero inbox kind of guy personally. 😂 @kev oh. So your search fetches the post content too? :blobcatderpy: Now I feel VERY dumb, I didn't even BOTHER opening it :blobcatcry: But hey I sent you an email, so there's that :blobfoxcomfycofe: @joel yup, it does. The search in Kirby is very good. https://kevquirk.com/search?q=zero+inbox Catching up on my email now, actually. @kev this is your lived experience so, by definition, it obviously isn't wrong. My microblogging experience doesn't equate to passing in a corridor. More like sitting in a pub and chatting shit with a group of friends. There was a time, in the golden days, I'd spend entire evenings talking with folk on identi.ca. Literally hundreds of posts over the whole evening... Mostly taking the piss out of each other. It was wonderful.  |
@kev If a blog is not as popular as your the email reply inbox feels like a lonely place. But, on Mastodon, meaningful interactions can happen even with a dozen followers or two.