@manton Listening to today’s Core Intuition — a couple of thoughts:
Dumping Slack: If you want to dump Slack, I say go for it! I do like the idea of having a forum separate from micro.blog where folks can discuss micro.blog tips, tricks and use cases. I don’t think Slack is a good forum for that, because it’s ephemeral. Discourse would be great for it, and has proven itself in several cases. However, I respect your desire to reduce the number of support channels.
Dumping Facebook: I’ve been thinking about what’s keeping me from dumping Facebook, and the answer is the conversation. 90% of the conversation I have about my posts happens on Facebook. I think of micro.blog as an archival medium. I’m grateful for the occasional comment here, but it’s not what I’m here for.
And if I moved off Facebook to micro.blog, I’d lose on that conversation. I can’t see asking my Facebook friends to join micro.blog as it currently exists.
However, what if there was an easy way for my anyone to leave a comment at the bottom of a post on mitchwagner.blog, or in my RSS feed, or on my daily newsletter (I use Mailchimp to distribute a daily compilation of my RSS feed to subscribers). There’d be a link marked “Comment” at the bottom of every post on mitchwagner.blog, which would allow a registered micro.blog user to leave a reply, and unregistered users to create an account in less than a minute, and then leave a reply. Replies would appear in the micro.blog stream and also at the bottom of each post (as they are now with micro.blog @replies).
This would allow for comments from people who are not participants in the micro.blog community. It would provide a first step to joining that community for people who are not yet members, and who might decide, hey, this micro.blog thing has been nice; I think I’ll start my own.
The feature could incorporate a code snippet to use micro.blog as a comments platform for WordPress, blot. etc.
And it would create a way for anyone who subscribes to micro.blog by RSS to leave comments on a post. I’d find that helpful myself — I’d prefer to subscribe to my stream in an RSS reader but I am currently stymied because it’s too hard to reply to a post. So instead I read micro.blog in an app or on the web.
What do you think?