@manton

Absolutely, and now you can attach WordPress blogs to the fediverse.

Here's an explainer >>> https://mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/2023/11/07/understanding-mastodon-federation-wordpress-fediblogs/

I was also thinking about this last night while reading David Pierce's article. I need to spend some time over the holidays thinking about how to consolidate my Activity Pub identiy down to my blog (or at the very least, micro.blog)

@jordon Let us know if you have any questions. Personally I love having it consolidated, but of course it doesn't work for everyone.

@manton Perhaps Mastodon can add a feature in which users can follow a blog's RSS feed as if it was a user account.

New posts from the blog would appear in the user's Mastodon timeline, and the user could boost them to followers.

+1 I use MB primarily as a blog hosting platform. I occasionally check in here but it's not the main reason I subscribe. More blogs. Less feeds.

@manton would love to have you on my channel next year to talk about this and other topics related to the Micro.Blog project.

@manton That, and it keeps the likes of Elon Musk from controlling the Public Square.

Not That Micro.blog is or should be competing with Mastodon, but this is a good way to differentiate. Lots of Mastodon instances federating with each other is a step in the right direction, but to fully embrace diversity on the internet, everyone should have a domain of their own.

Also, leaning hard into the non-social aspects of the fediverse will help clarify things in your mind and for future users. This discussion on the Help forum on why someone needs a Mastodon account or a Micro.blog or both is helpful. Referencing your post on why Mb isn't more viral, the lack of likes, follower counts, hashtags, etc. may be the reason, but if you, as a founder of Micro.blog, find those missing things as features, then you probably will have to live with a smaller user base (unfortunately or fortunately), ergo, less revenue.

I tried consolidating onto micro.blog a short time ago and found it didn't work for me. At least not for now. Maybe another day I'll feel differently.

I like +1s as a signal that someone is reading my activity—although the number of +1s I receive is relatively unimportant. And I like reposts. I'm primarily a linkblogger, and the ability to repost--and to see others' reposts--is a big part of that.

And yeah I'm finding the feeds and streams less important. Though I'm still using RSS as a major tool, and that's a kind of stream.

@vladcampos Sure, I'd be happy to be on sometime! Send me an email in the New Year whenever it's convenient.

@Ddanielson Yeah, Micro.blog isn't well-suited to the ephemeral right now, but I could imagine an app that was focused on that and would delete older microblog posts. Also might be some trickery possible with blog themes to make things fade away.

@Ddanielson I remove short posts from my Archive. The URLs still exist and content is in the feed, but from my site at least, low emphasis placed on microposts.

@jsonbecker Not to butt in, but how do you do that?

@Ddanielson you can see it in action here versus my main page.

@clorgie a custom template for the li.html partial that just doesn't do anything with posts that don't have titles.

@jsonbecker @Ddanielson This is on my to-do list for the holiday break.

@mastodonmigration @manton The ActivityPub plugin is Amazing and their support forum on wordpress.org is super responsive too.

@mbrailer Oh! Someone have done a tool (sorry I couldn’t find to link it) that turns any rss into a activityPub account that you can follow on Mastodon

@joel @manton @Luke This looks cool!

@antonior Thank you, I think I found it: https://github.com/dariusk/rss-to-activitypub

@joel great idea. Challenges like that are great motivators

@mbrailer Yes, that is the one from Darius.

@Ddanielson I have the same problem, but perhaps more so because a lot of what I post to social media are memes, vintage photos and other found media that I scrounge primarily from Reddit, Tumblr and Facebook. My solution is to simply NOT post those things here.

As for other ephemera that I do post here, I think the solution is to highlight the long-lived stuff rather than fade the ephemera. I recently came across a micro.blogger (I can't remember his name now!) who uses lists that appear to be manually compiled; this seems to be a good solution.

can I take you up on this offer for questions? Would it be best to do it here or via email?

@jordon Sure! Email is probably best to make sure I don't lose track of it.

Thank you! I'll send to help@micro.blog shortly!