“Everything that we make, we try to make the web a better place.” — Matt Mullenweg in an interview on Decoder

@manton @siracusa that's really neat!

@manton I keep seeing more and more reasons to just use Micro.blog for everything ...

@manton @siracusa that…, feels like an xss waiting to happen. Do I want to go look at the code?

@SockToy I haven't checked the Mastodon code but I expect it sanitizes all incoming HTML and links to weed out JavaScript.

@manton @siracusa Is this therefore possible without using Micro.blog to start with?

@leoncowle It should be. I don't expect Mastodon to adopt this for creating posts, but possibly forks or compatible servers like Pleroma might.

@manton I like micro.blog's support for Markdown-to-Mastodon. It's a small thing, but I appreciate it. @siracusa

@manton I'm only partway through that interview, but Mullenweg impresses me. Regarding the Tumblr purchase: I think he just plain likes the weird culture there (as do I).

@leoncowle @manton @siracusa Indeed, the Glitch-soc fork of Mastodon allows this! IIRC Pleroma also allows it, and also some other ActivityPub software (like GoToSocial, Microblog.pub, etc.). But not on mainline Mastodon itself.

@manton it gives Automattic a personal blogging platform, which WordPress no longer is. 

As for me, lately I’ve been separating out my personal blogging from my Tumblr use, because I find Tumblr to be more collaborative. It’s that old Internet remix culture. Like comedy improv, as Mullenweg says.