A couple of weeks ago I moved ericmaki.com to micro.blog, and so far I’m impressed by its features and the spirit of its community. I’d previously been using Wordpress.com, but given the (in)frequency of my posting and the simplicity of what I truly needed in a blog host, it had always seemed like too much tool for the job.

Importing my few posts from WP was a breeze. The one feature that I miss is an image carousel, as a couple of my posts contained one of those, but I think that in keeping with the simplicity of this platform, I’ll be using an image per post, and linking off to an album on Google Photos when I’ve got more to share.

Another feature that I’ve found useful is the twitter importer. I’ve been slowly quitting twitter as it gets less useful and more hate-filled, and as part of that process have wanted to remove my content from the site. Micro.blog’s importer will allow me to preserve some of my favorite tweets and delete the ones that were, in retrospect, just weak hot takes on the news or mundane complaints. Now that I’ve got a complete archive here, I’ve deleted almost everything from twitter itself.

One last intriguing feature here is the support for podcasting. I haven’t quite figured out what I want to create, but I’ve been admiring what some other micro.blog folk have been doing with short-form podcasts and am looking forward to experimenting. Stay tuned!