Micro.blog

patrickrhone
patrickrhone

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

JMaxB
JMaxB

@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?

Cheri
Cheri

@patrickrhone Sign me up. I’m new to Signal but I like it. šŸ™‚

rnv
rnv

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

danj
danj

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

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

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jean
jean

@JMaxB I defer to @manton. šŸ˜‡

I like the idea of being able to message folks, but since Micro.blog is built on public blog posts, so we can’t offer private messaging without a major retooling of our capabilities in several aspects.

patrickrhone
patrickrhone

@jean FWIW, that’s why I floated this idea out as ā€œunofficialā€.

More of a ā€œpeople like us use things like thisā€ agreement between users. Organically started and grown like hashtags.

jthingelstad
jthingelstad

@rnv add to you contact page?

jean
jean

@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.

vishae
vishae

@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.

rom
rom

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

ChrisJWilson
ChrisJWilson

@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.

maique
maique

@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.

maique
maique

@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.

vishae
vishae

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

maique
maique

@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

maique
maique

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

Mandalorian
Mandalorian

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

vishae
vishae

@maique thanks for doing that! Jumped on immediately.

patrickrhone
patrickrhone

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

odd
odd

@patrickrhone I’m pro that.

odd
odd

@patrickrhone I’m always amazed by Amazon’s logic: If you like Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, maybe you’ll like ā€œOLW Cheese Doodlesā€?

patrickrhone
patrickrhone

@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.

maique
maique

@ohBananaJoe It’s everyone’s group 😊

maique
maique

@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.

odd
odd

@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.

Portufraise
Portufraise

@maique Joined too!

ReaderJohn
ReaderJohn

@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.

vishae
vishae

@maique I just realised a solution to the ā€œnot wanting to share our phone number for Signalā€ problem. You created a micro.blog group and shared the group link, but technically we can each create our own ā€œWelcomeā€ group, and post that link on our individual ā€œContact meā€ page. We can even set the group’s membership to ā€œapproval requiredā€ to filter out spammers. Once someone has ā€œmade contactā€ you can even delete them out of the welcome group.

maique
maique

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

jean
jean

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

Cheri
Cheri

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

wakemp
wakemp

@vishae Thanks for figuring this out!