Micro.blog

Random Thought spurred by @matthewlang: Maybe Signal should be the un-official DM service for Micro.blog.

@patrickrhone I'd love to be able to message people individually on micro.blog and think it could be built smoothly into the app. How about if posts beginning with @@name only appeared on @name's time-line? Thoughts, @jean?

@patrickrhone Sign me up. I’m new to Signal but I like it. 🙂

@patrickrhone Love this. A way to tie our Signal account to our M.b account @manton?

@patrickrhone This is a cool idea. And building different features with different tools (instead of as a monolithic silo) is very IndieWeb. 🤓

(Though I suppose the really IndieWeb solution would be us all running our own XMPP servers... 😂)

@jean FWIW, that’s why I floated this idea out as “unofficial”.

More of a “people like us use things like this” agreement between users. Organically started and grown like hashtags.

@rnv add to you contact page?

@patrickrhone I like this idea. I’m going to sign up for Signal and try it out. I don’t use What’s App or FB, but I can see this would be a cool use.

@jthingelstad not sure whether it’s such a good idea to have our phone numbers posted on our site like that though. Even an email address attract spammers.

@jean I use iMessage and Signal (for those friends using Android). ;)

@patrickrhone INTERESTING! Never used signal but I'm open to the idea. I've struck up a couple of iMessage conversations with people from here but that is annoyingly Apple only.

@vishae Telegram has a nice way of handling this. You get a t.me/username URL you can share, and no one has access to your phone number.

@patrickrhone @vishae Update: read the support pages and there’s a new group feature where you get a link (or QR Code) for the group. Sharing that would give a way for people to join that group. Maybe that’s a way to get everyone on board without sharing phone numbers publicly.

@maique that would be good, and i guess once on the group chat, it’d be easier to arrange DMs if needed.

@vishae Made this on a rush, I'm leaving soon and will be back in a few hours. Feel free to join, I'll add everyone as admin as soon as I can.

group link

@patrickrhone Made a group, shared it on a reply. Hope it’s ok. @cm @ChrisJWilson @rom @jean @jthingelstad @rnv @Cheri @danj @JMaxB

@patrickrhone nice idea. I joined @maique's Signal group

@maique thanks for doing that! Jumped on immediately.

@maique How do we connect up? Don’t we need to have each other’s phone numbers? (Mine: US 612-616-8633)

@patrickrhone I’m pro that.

@patrickrhone I’m always amazed by Amazon’s logic: If you like Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, maybe you’ll like “OLW Cheese Doodles”?

@odd I'm finding Apple's recommendations to be far more accurate. That said, they have much deeper info about my listening habits through 20 years of iTunes use.

@ohBananaJoe It’s everyone’s group 😊

@vishae There was a need, and I had spare time and also wanted to try this out. I’m the one thanking you for the idea.

@patrickrhone Yes, they are pretty good, although I use Spotify for music now. I like how much better the predictive text on iPhones has become lately. It makes it a lot easier for me to type in English.

@maique Joined too!

@patrickrhone unlike @Cheri, I’ve had Signal for a long time and like it, but not a lot of my friends use it. I like your idea.

@maique I just realised a solution to the “not wanting to share our phone number for Signal” problem. You created a micro.blog group and shared the group link, but technically we can each create our own “Welcome” group, and post that link on our individual “Contact me” page. We can even set the group’s membership to “approval required” to filter out spammers. Once someone has “made contact” you can even delete them out of the welcome group.

@vishae That is a great idea, it would solve the issue. Adding it to my contact page.

@maique @vishae This makes a lot of sense. I made a group and now can share the link. Brilliant.

@vishae That’s a smart idea! Thanks for sharing.

@vishae Thanks for figuring this out!