Micro.blog is the best of everything: Your Twitter, Medium, and LinkedIn accounts (Tumblr and Mastadon, if you use those), and your independent blog — all in one. Your words and conversations remain yours, no matter what happens on the corporate-controlled sites. Save yourself.
@strengthentheverbs What if something happens to micro.blog though? I mean, it’s still some platform that you don’t control and that has all your data. What if they close their shop tomorrow?
@nekr0z That's why you purchase your own URL that can take anywhere. Or you use Micro.blog to post to your own WordPress website. I actually haven't taken all the steps myself because I'm not that tech savvy.
In my experience, Brid.gy is a much more flexible instrument when it comes to controlling and owning your tweets from your own website.
@nekr0z Is Micro.blog unnecessary? It depends on what you're looking for. If you just want internet independence, then perhaps that's true. May I ask why you're here?
@gpittman For me, Micro.blog is a positive place to interact, without ads, where the timeline remains chronological and uncluttered, and instead of arguing about what makes them angry, people share things they create and enjoy.
@nekr0z In my understanding of the micro.blog platform, ownership of your content is exactly what micro.blog hopes to achieve. If for whatever reason Micro.blog stops, as a user we can downlod all content and upload it again to a different platform. In most ways that is the same as with Wordpress. I can understand that if you have a wordpress site, micro.blog would have limited value as a standalone. That said, the community behind micro.blog connects these sites so that you do not have to fiddle around with contact forms or accounts of visiters on your website if they want to reply to your post.
@gpittman Every time I go to Twitter, I have little interest in interacting there anymore, let alone saving tweets. It's secondary to my microblog, and I cross-post there only because I can. I use Micro.blog for the positive interactions, simplicity, and calming white space.
@nekr0z I'm curious if you may have blocked incoming webmentions from micro.blog in webmention.io? (I've accidentally done it once or twice for other domains.) Look at: webmention.io/settings/... to see if that's the root of your issue. I have my own stand-alone WordPress site and frequently get webmentions from micro.blog. Here's an example: https://boffosocko.com/2020/04/25/55770533/#comment-285985.
I also frequently reply to others on micro.blog without issues, though depending on how they set their preferences, micro.blog sites have the choice of either showing or not showing Webmentions. (And this is a relatively new feature that's supported in the past few months.)
If you're having issues on the back-and-forth, you should definitely ping @manton, who I've always found to be incredibly helpful.
I rarely visit micro.blog on the web since I read all of the sites I'm following on it either individually in my feed reader or in aggregate using the feed: micro.blog/feeds/c.j... (You can get yours by replacing the "c" with your username. I'll also mention that Inoreader pushed some changes for titleless posts in December that makes the presentation of feeds from micro.blog much better than most other feed readers.) Since all the comments on my posts come back to me as webmentions, I never really need to visit its site other than occasional visits to the "discover" tabs to see things that don't make my personal feed.