Introducing Nostr cross-posting manton.org

@manton I might as well turn this on as well, even though I’m using Nostr. Barely visit bsky these days…

@maique I had to take a break from Bluesky, there was so much going on over there.

@manton SO much! Exhausting.

@maique @manton glad that I am not the only feeling that. I was barely checking because it was overwhelming with content.

@pcora @maique @manton I kinda like Bluesky. But to be honest, I mostly follow people I already follow here or in Mastodon. I’m there mostly to see what they’re implementing and get more info about the protocol.

@otaviocc Same. Whenever I go out of the comfort zone, it’s a mess!

@manton I enabled it, but that’s another platform I mostly follow people I already follow here, on Mastodon, and Bluesky.

I’m impressed by how simple Nostr architecture is. There’s nothing new, no magic. It’s one of those things we might ask “how didn’t anyone implement this before?”

@otaviocc I understand that. But so far, the only spoke about this possibility of federation, but until I see it happening, I'm considering it vaporware.

@manton Does your site offer a long posts-only RSS feed? I wonder if it would be too heavy-handed to have one available for all Micro.blog sites by default.

@jarrod Mine does, at /categories/essays/feed.xml. I think we never standardized it for everyone because I couldn't figure out what it should be called. "Long posts", "essays", etc... Everyone has a slightly different name.

@manton Maybe everyone gets automatic category filters of “long posts” and “short posts” by default, but they can be disabled or renamed?

@jarrod Maybe. Although I also wonder if the extra complexity ("what are these categories?") outweighs the benefit. We could have a tutorial on setting this up, or maybe a quick one-click solution similar to the filter checkbox for photos.

@manton That might be a nice middle ground. I know personally like subscribing to folks’ longer stuff via my RSS reader, but the way Micro.blog sites are by default that means I also get all the short posts too. With the guidance toward adding a title when longer and how those posts are displayed differently on the timeline, I think it would be pretty natural to have a little more automatic separation in the way people can subscribe to someone’s posts.

@birming Currently you'd need to use a theme to adjust the home page truncation automatically. But if you know where you want it truncated, inserting <!--more--> for the cut will work on the web and in the newsletter.

@manton isn’t there already a ‘standard’ category called ‘Titled Posts’ ?

I would also vote for a better category management system first and before going too far down this route.

Makes note to self to add to the @pratik thread in help…

@JohnPhilpin I read that as “Tilted posts”, and it got me thinking about my unofficial RFC about diagonally oriented screens. (Link is in absentia)

@JohnPhilpin Nope, there are no default categories for new accounts.

@manton oh - i see what I have done - it is a rule I set up that is categorizing into 'Titled Posts'.

@odd and I read that and thought you were starting a thread on Porcupine Tree!

@jsonbecker yes - just realized that I had set that up - thought it was automatic. Now just disabled. It was great to pick up all the title posts to see what is there - but there are some posts I make with title - that don’t fit into my 'Long Form' posts - do now moved back to manual while I slowly sort out the history.

@jsonbecker Me too, I set them up manually as “micro-posts” and “macro-posts” but I’m considering changing them to “short-posts” and “long-posts” for clarity.