This bit from our news blog is probably worth highlighting here too. We’ve improved cross-posting in Micro.blog, now preserving alt text when sending photos to Twitter. Required a trip down the OAuth rabbit hole for a new endpoint and updating old code.
@jordanborth It is possible! Add the RSS feed for your Mastodon account to Micro.blog under Account → Edit Feeds. When adding the feed, you can have it add the posts to the timeline or copy them to your blog. Micro.blog will check Mastodon for your new posts automatically.
@manton This is great. More than ever it's important to add support for everybody who uses Twitter. No matter the tech nerd inner-circle narrative, a lot of people will continue to use it as a tool and our tools should be as accessible as possible.
@manton it’s surprising that we will be able to use Ivory for the Micro.blog. I’ve been using the feed features to cross-post from here into Mastodon. But I didn’t know it works both ways. Thanks Manton.
@manton the only reason I ever used brid.gy was for alt text -- so this is great news. Thanks for doing this despite the insanity of Twitter's new owner.
@jordanborth I guess Tapbot could support Micro.Blog in Ivory as well as Mastodon. The APIs are there. @manton
@jordanborth I would just be careful not to add your posts and replies RSS. I made that mistake and it got messy real quick.
@manton what is the difference between posting to the timeline vs your blog? If you post to your blog, does the post not end up in the timeline?
@bryanrobb It does. It’s essentially whether you want a post only in the timeline or in the timeline and also on your microblog. Some people might want it only in the timeline if the canonical post is already on WordPress, for example.
@jordanborth What are you trying to do? It looks like maybe you added your Mastodon RSS feed to Micro.blog, so it added the posts to Micro.blog… ? Just avoid creating a loop with posts from Mastodon importing to Micro.blog and then back to the same Mastodon account. 🙂 Let me know more about what you want to do and I can offer advice.
@manton I would like to post from Mastodon and have that same post added to Micro.blog (ideally without the replies in Mastodon). I tried adding my Mastodon RSS feed to Micro.blog but that’s when I was seeing posts duplicated multiple times on Mastodon and Micro.blog
@jordanborth Yeah, I don’t think there’s a way to avoid the duplicates right now unless you only post to M.b first. And you can’t exclude the replies because the Mastodon RSS feed has everything. So not ideal but might be possible in the future with tweaks.
