@manton for the record, every time MicroBlog cross posts rich text inline links into BlueSky, people marvel at it. I also love it and would like Mastodon posts to appear in the same way.
And yeah, the many options per network type is hard. Thanks for working on this.
@manton just didn’t post. A post with a static image posted just fine a few hours earlier.
@manton I didn’t realize that Live Photos get turned into GIFs. Very cool!
Unfortunately, it means it failed to post to Bluesky.
@yury_mol the vast majority of users read on mobile clients, many of which have a “read more” click. The Hometown fork has this by default.
As more ActivityStream types happen in the Fediverse, I expect clients to evolve too. In fact, clients are evolving fastest.
@manton there are a number of microblogging ActivityPub servers that support long character counts.
Hometown Mastodon fork & a bunch of non Mastodon codebases support this.
Some do long Note posts, some actually use the Article ActivityStream type. I’d love Article support in Micro.blog
@ArnoldHoogerwerf let me know how it goes! It’s pretty simple and forgiving to make.
About the one tip is, if you’re in an area with heavily chlorinated or treated tap water, fill a container with 4L of water and let it sit out for a few days
@ton yeah! I think we’re just now getting to the point where we can go back to those thoughts and bring in a much broader, more diverse set of people to knowing what they want and how important it is, with the “benefit” of having steeped in an info culture for a couple of decades.
@val yep it’s lovely to have hit springtime and brighter colours. It was grey and cold in Vancouver for way too long.
@manton can you make it tweetback compatible? github.com/tweetback... -> Specifically, this just means helping folks have their "canonical" tweet urls shared github.com/tweetback...-canonical, which doesn't require using Tweetback at all
@Aaronvegh it is not. Jay Graber is the founder, who was recruited after her research into decentralized social networks.
It’s a separate entity, Jack is not in charge, and it’s a public benefit corporation that produces open standards and open source software.
@vanderwal such an indulgence but of course when one thinks about a memory stretching out over 3 decades — worth it!
@manton uploading the tweets.js and images folder rather than the whole zip file would be the way to go.
Ideally, please be compatible with Tweetback Canonical github.com/tweetback...
Over time, self hosted archives can interlink to each other.
@bryanrobb no I heard it years ago, its just triggered fun sense memories. And yes, I bought the album. It's good!
@toddgrotenhuis I do have iA Writer hooked up to Micro.blog.
My main site at bmannconsulting.com is a custom Jekyll install that handles wiki links. And it’s about to be ported to a #LogSeq powered site that lives at logseq.bmannconsulting.com
I use Mb for bloggy photo personal stuff and for cross posting. It’s currently sucking in content from two of my Mastodon accounts via their RSS feeds.
You could write a custom Hugo theme for Mb that supported wiki links, but at that point you should just run your own on GitHub pages.
@brid.gy cool, thanks for the info! I just walked past a Fresh Prep van today, which are apparently “made in BC”.
I’ve been thinking about if this can be made to work “bottoms up” in communities directly.
@vanderwal the interactive interface and graph nature at the block level of LogSeq seems to make it slower. Obsidian is mostly structured as page links and just keeps an index of structure, more like a text editor.
Keeping a search index of my 50K tweet archive (rather than “live” import) might be a solution for me.
In any case - lovely to finally be getting some better intertwingling tools after 2 decades ;)
@jameskoole Vancouver and surroundings are so lucky to have a ton of green / wild spaces so close.
@pimoore yeah I was really feeling a welling up of happiness to be in my neighbourhood and wanted to capture it.
What a difference the sun coming out makes.
@pimoore fall is coming, y’all win at fall there.
@pimoore it’s where I grew up so it’s tinged with extra nostalgia when I get to visit.
Where are you based?
@manton like most of the major AP apps, it uses OAuth. I’m playing a little loose with the Masto/AP distinction — there is enough capability that various front ends and clients interoperate around the basics.
I understand your reluctance, but it makes Mb a bit of a stand-alone. You’re at the “center” of a bunch of IndieWeb stuff … but as it stands, there aren’t viable IW federated servers. AP’s federation is the closest we have.
Anyway, thanks for the discussion!
@manton I find Mb very blog / notification channel focused. So updates get pushed to Masto (which I use, thank you!), but this chat here is not connected.
I am not suggesting that you SHOULD do this, but essentially become a first class member of the Fediverse.
I should be able to use an AP client — like the new Mastodon iOS one — and use my Mb account anywhere. Including posting, which of course would mean supporting AP in addition to Micropub.
@manton my partner is an artist and Glass doesn’t appeal as it over-focuses on photography.
For artists & others who care about indie social, I’m still recommending Mastodon or Pixelfed.
There’s a longer discussion here about how I’d feel more comfortable if Mb 1) open sourced* the server and/or 2) fully participated in the ActivityPub fediverse.
*a non commercial open license like Prosperity or IndieCC might be a fit.
@pimoore I grew up on Bowen Island, which is the chunk of land on the left edge of the photo.
It’s a pretty lovely part of the world.
@hoppysensei I still miss Bestie Wurst but this place is pretty good.