Mastodon DMs on Micro.blog manton.org

@manton This is perfectly executed. Love the auto-deleting aspect.

@manton Nice. I like the ephemeral nature of it.

@manton Oh, that’s smart.

@manton Would a reply by email be out of the question? Then you could shorten the retention period even more - unless you had abuse concerns, I suppose. And it would lower friction. Authentication concerns perhaps?

@manton I have a mastodon account @adamprocter and cross post from MB to it - I also follow some people on mastodon via micro.blog but I can’t @ reply to them in micro.blog if the @ is the first thing in the post. I think I could if I added a mastodon compatible name but that gave me two accounts and confused me if people mentioned me as it depended on the account they mentioned is there anyway to address this? So I can @ a person from MB and cross post that to my mastodon account? At the moment I have to pop into my mastodon client find the conversation I want to contribute to and put the post there. Hope that makes sense.

@dgs I rather not expose my email unless I have to. Plus, the conversation might move over to email, which can be archived by the receiver. I used to love that I could delete DMs at my end, and they would disappear for the receiver too. But that may be just me. @manton

@dgs Reply via email was my first idea too, but it ended up being kind of complicated... Wouldn't rule it out for later, though.

@adamprocter It makes sense. To reply to Mastodon from Micro.blog, you have to enable the Mastodon-compatible username. This is a technical limitation in the protocol... No way around it.

@pratik Completely agree. Apologies if i was not clear. I was suggesting that an email reply is sent via ggd micro.blog gateway as a DM rather than using a web form. Although i can foresee all sorts of edge cases @manton may prefer to avoid!

@manton Yeah, sitting here with my coffee, I am already glad I don't have to implement it. :)

@manton thanks, ok I’m going to keep that off as that became too confusing for me and I like to have my fosstodon account as I support that server and don’t follow everyone from there on MB anyway - took me a while to wrap my head around what I had done when I had it active mind 🤣

@adamprocter fwiw I cross post to my indieweb.social account and also have my Micro.blog name on. I don't care where someone follows me, and replying in either place gets back to me, and I can reply from whatever someone chooses to follow. I view my Micro.blog Mastodon name as another "feed"-- you can subscribe on MB, via RSS, or via ActivityPub. The advantage of ActivityPub is the same as MB, you can reply to me. I then have a mastodon account with cross posting that I directly use more often when I feel like it.

I think a lot of folks (not a blame or problem!) can over think the Micro.blog compatibility. It's just providing another option for following your blog!

@jsonbecker thanks, I hear you, I just got totally confused by having both on so I think I’ll stick to cross posting and replying to mastodon app when I need to and checking mentions in both MB app and mastodon app

@manton Even though I’m not using Mastodon, I still appreciate the thought and care you put into this feature. Finding the right compromise between the open web and keeping mb unique is hard, and you walked the line really well here.

@manton Nice! Happy that my Mastodon & Fediverse presence via Micro.blog is now essentially feature complete.

@manton I chose to plant myself in micro.blog because I appreciate how the simplicity you are cultivating, and the features you are limiting, encourages posting over 'platforming'. I'd be okay with never getting a DM, I suppose, but I appreciate the way you are handling this feature.

@johnchandler Thanks! Glad you’re here.

@manton thanks for this! :)