@help - so I have connected micro blog to mastadon. I used to have another app routing posts for me. Should I now be seeing two posts in mastadon - or is mastadon clever enough recognize dupes?
And ... still to work out the Activity Pub angle ... but so many warnings about ‘get it right’ ... I am scared to push the button.
... Should that user name be my microblog or my mastadon user name ... or doesn’t it make any difference?
@JohnPhilpin So when you turn on ActivityPub support, you choose whatever username you want to show up on Mastodon. For simplicity's sake I went with the same username you use on micro.blog (so I'm now @droct), but it's up to you. Keep in mind it'll be a new account, separate from your existing Mastodon account. But you can make the front part of your username (the part before the domain) anything you want.
@JohnPhilpin So you have to keep in mind that your existing Mastodon account (at Mastodon.social I think?) is a totally separate account. That account is @Fractals. You can cross post to it like you can to a twitter account (which I think is what you have set up now). That's a totally separate option from setting up ActivityPub support. (I will not that I follow your mastodon account and I haven't seen any double posting since you turned on cross-posting so either Mastodon.social is smart enough to ignore the extra posts or one of the two ways you're cross posting there is).
If you turn on ActivityPub support you will essentially be creating a NEW Mastodon account. It'll be @whatever@john.philpin.com (I don't beleive you can mess with the domain at the end, though I could be wrong about that). So you could be @fractals@john.philpin.com or you could be @johnphilpin. But whatever you choose it'll be a separate identity/account from your existing Mastodon account.
I beleive if you leave cross-posting on your posts will go to both accounts.
@JohnPhilpin Happy to help. It took me a little bit to get too. But now that I've turned it on it's nice to be able to follow both micro.blog and mastodon people from one timeline, and to be able to reply (and receive replies) from both groups in one place.
I do miss seeing boosts, being able to boost things, and being able to star them (I understand the micro.blog stance on Favorites being private, but I like being able to just give a quick nod with a button press to people when I like what they've posted). So it allows for basic interaction and following between micro.blog and Mastodon but not the full gamut of features.
