This blog post from Robert Birming perfectly captures what Micro.blog is trying to do by leaving some features out.

@manton it‘s exactly what I am trying to do with my bookmarking tool Links. It saves bookmarks, archives the URL content and makes everything full text searchable. No categories. No tags.

@manton Thank you, and thanks for this great place you’re building. 🤩

@manton originally I wanted to create Safari WebArchives, but couldn’t get it to work properly. Then I stumbled across WARC and learned that it is now recognised by most national library systems as the standard to follow for web archiving. So that seemed like a perfect fit. And then I couldn’t get the Python module to work. I always got empty files. So I ended up writing my own module.

@manton import/export is on the todo list. And I was definitely going to include Micro.blog as one of the main targets.

@manton I genuinely understand that, but it also makes me a bit sad. I really love many of the Micro.blog features and find the ActivityPub integration fascinating. But because I need some of those metrics for my consulting business, I had to leave.

Maybe a business plan for people like me would be a middle ground. The stats wouldn't even need to be public. Anyway, just had this thought right now, and I am sharing just in case.

@vladcampos Yep, I get that. What kind of metrics do you think you would need? Even if we’re focused first on personal blogs, I’d like us to be flexible enough to scale up to more business use cases too.

@manton I'm constantly trying to figure out where my interests meet with the best topics to focus on. How could I use those passions that more people seam to be interested in to help me pay the bills?

Think of yourself. You are making a leaving out of a passion. It's kind of that.

For example, when I look at likes, flowers, etc., it's never about ego; instead, it's about what, among all that I love sharing, people are more interested in.

@manton There's also the lack of reposts. That's discoverability, which is important for a business. I genuinely believe there's a healthy way to use all that, in favor of mindful business.

@vladcampos I see, more on the fediverse side, not the blog hosting side. I’ll think about this, although you’re right that by default Micro.blog’s social features don’t help much with growing a business audience.

@manton No complaints about the blog part. Believe it or not, I'm frequently find myself mentally trying to solve the puzzle of using Micro.blog in a way that would make sense for my business 😊.

But, I always hit a brick wall when it comes to the Fediverse. I don't know, maybe make the metrics hidden and also opt-in.