A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
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Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy
I suspect this is unlikely to take off with Fediverse enthusiasts unless they open source it, or at least have some way people can self-host it and make a micro blogiverse.
It looks like they had plans to do that at one point. Unclear whether they still plan to do it. Tumblr and blogging honestly seem like the most natural fit for federation. More natural even than Twitter or Reddit. It'd be great to see them do that.
More natural even than Twitter or Reddit
I get twitter, but why reddit?
I really enjoy using lemmy, and couldn't see a more natural fit for federation. I've never been much of a blogger though, so maybe I'm missing something?
Because it kinda harkens back to old school blogs, where each person had their own personal blog that they managed themselves, but they would often be part of a community of like-minded blogs which would link through to each other.
Micro.blog as a platform is awesome, but I was sort of disheartened to see the users treat it like mastodon, lots of short blurbs and random thoughts. I settled into Write.as, it's a similar activitypub blogging project, but it's users seem to lean more into long form content.
All that said, the integration you configured with your domain is super cool, what a great way to setup a simple controlled web presence.
Edit: to clarify nothing wrong with users treating it like mastodon, it's their space! Just wasn't what I was personally seeking from a "blog" service
That's the beauty of it. You can use it for long form or short form content.
A little tweak to the max post length setting and you can do that with Mastodon too. I wish it was that way by default.
The nice thing about blogging is the customization of your website. Lots of theming and plugin options. It feels more expressive!
I’ve been a user for a while and love the service. I also love the bookshelf feature.
Very cool I didn't even know about this! I downloaded the bookshelf app and it's pretty neat! It's called Epilogue on Android.
I gotta say, interactive social bookreading does sound like it could be kinda neat.
Is the paid part just for using their server? Like can I setup my own micro.blog instance and have people sign up for accounts for free and be able to post videos?
I don't think you can self host unfortunately. You can bring your own domain but they host the data.
As someone who never used tumbler, why did you like it and what benefits does it have?
I use blogging to post long form content such as creative writing. It's nice to have your own space/domain.
nice, sounds pretty cool :)
Is Micro.Blog actually federated with ActivityPub? The site says it supports cross-posting to Mastodon, which sounds like it's more of a post mirroring service than an actually federated instance. I couldn't find much more clarification on their About page.
Yes it's federated. I've tested it. My profile shows up in mastodon. I'm also following lots of mastodon users with my custom domain and their posts show up on my micro.blog timeline.
Cool, thanks for verifying that!