@manton @annahavron @jean Marketing, cross promotion idea… maybe ridiculous, but I’ve seen lots of posts recently from a certain someone that’s just releasing a new version of his blogging software that supports micro.blog. Might some sort of cross-promotional sale be done in the new year? A combo, sign-up for Micro.blog for a year and buy MarsEdit for a discount on both, something to promote both to new users. @danielpunkass It’s been a while since I signed up and actually viewed the home page for people not logged in so I went back and had a look. With this thread in mind I read it more critically than I normally would with thoughts about new, non-technical users in mind. Or, taking it a step further, thinking about it from a perspective of person who may have heard the term blog a few times but not actually know what it means. Open platform? Cross-posting? The last sentence of the first paragraph: “Micro.blog is a suite of tools made by people who love writing on the web.” This offers at least two blockages, “suite of tools” and “writing on the web”. I’m not a professional writer that needs tools. I may not even be a writer. I’m a person that wants to share photos of my cozy cat and talk about my coffee or my garden. The help link at top should go to something less intimidating, perhaps the “Table of Contents” page. Also, what about a “getting started” link at the top of the home page that links to the Welcome.micro.blog page… make that more obvious. More videos. And on pricing, what about a family plan in addition to or alongside of the Teams pricing. The bias there is that micro.blog is for professionals. Why not offer a family plan? Let’s see if we can help aunts, uncles, siblings, etc get into micro.blogging. Perhaps it’s exactly the same thing but just worded differently.

I just started listening to a discussion between @danielpunkass and @manton about the risk of Mastodon becoming the default #Fediverse platform, and crowding out other Fediverse services like Micro.blog (for example).

On a similar note, what if Tumblr becomes a dominant #ActivityPub service? Will it crowd out the rest?

I will probably have a few more thoughts when I have time to really listen and consider their thoughts.

Worth listening for sure, though: https://pca.st/rj79laxg#t=28m14s

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Marketing, cross promotion idea… maybe ridiculous, but I’ve seen lots of posts recently from a certain someone that’s just releasing a new version of his blogging software that supports micro.blog. Might some sort of cross-promotional sale be done in the new year? A combo, sign-up for Micro.blog for a year and buy MarsEdit for a discount on both, something to promote both to new users. @danielpunkass

It’s been a while since I signed up and actually viewed the home page for people not logged in so I went back and had a look. With this thread in mind I read it more critically than I normally would with thoughts about new, non-technical users in mind. Or, taking it a step further, thinking about it from a perspective of person who may have heard the term blog a few times but not actually know what it means. Open platform? Cross-posting?

The last sentence of the first paragraph: “Micro.blog is a suite of tools made by people who love writing on the web.” This offers at least two blockages, “suite of tools” and “writing on the web”. I’m not a professional writer that needs tools. I may not even be a writer. I’m a person that wants to share photos of my cozy cat and talk about my coffee or my garden.

The help link at top should go to something less intimidating, perhaps the “Table of Contents” page. Also, what about a “getting started” link at the top of the home page that links to the Welcome.micro.blog page… make that more obvious.