Denny
Denny

@starrwulfe Yeah, it's interesting and I think for many, including myself, still a bit confusing! Micro.blog is kind of it's own deal with it's own semi-silo. Our blogs are open via RSS but I think there are still questions/confusions about commenting. I had a friend (not on micro.blog) ask how he could comment on my blog. I could not easily explain to him how to do so. Later he joined Mastodon and he's now on BlueSky. I let him know that he could comment via Mastodon. He was a bit confused at first because I have a stand-alone Mastodon account so he was just interacting to that account.

Since seeing your recent posts about web mentions along with those by @khurtwilliams I'm aware now that there is potential for cross posting comments via the micro.blog timeline to Wordpress blogs but that seems even more confused/difficult and unreliable? I think Khurt has been struggling to get it working.

As for your specific question about federating, with the big ships like Blue Sky and Threads, I like the open, welcome approach.

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khurtwilliams@photog.social
khurtwilliams@photog.social

@Denny @starrwulfe well meaning attempts to bridge BlueSky and Mastodon erupted onto a battle, but technically it’s doable.

techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/blue

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khurtwilliams@photog.social
khurtwilliams@photog.social

@Denny @starrwulfe I’m excited to see how Instagram leverages ActivityPub to link Threads to the fediverse.

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khurtwilliams@photog.social
khurtwilliams@photog.social

@Denny @starrwulfe my blog is ready to join in.

islandinthenet.com/wordpress-a

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starrwulfe
starrwulfe

I read your post there @khurtwilliams, looks like it was a rough start to implement for your site. Is everything running smoothly now? Also w/r/t my post being referenced how would you choose to set things up when there's Threads also being thrown into the fedi?

(I also posted about this a bit here myself.)

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khurtwilliams@photog.social
khurtwilliams@photog.social

@starrwulfe It’s mostly positive but there are some odd bugs. For example, when I schedule a WordPress post to go live at a later date, the link gets posted to Mastodon even though the post isn’t live.

Examples here: photog.social/@khurtwilliams@i

and here: photog.social/@khurtwilliams@i

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khurtwilliams@photog.social
khurtwilliams@photog.social

@starrwulfe let me read your post before I respond to the other question.

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khurtwilliams@photog.social
khurtwilliams@photog.social

@starrwulfe @khurtwilliams oh man! That blog post is the one I wish I had written. Ditto!

My blog already exchanges messages with BlueSky via Brid.gy and I’m excited for Threads to join the party.

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