Ivory and Micro.blog, not yet manton.org
@manton.org Good post, particularly about NOT creating a monoculture in the fediverse. That's an issue I'm concerned about—as Mastodon increases in popularity, will it do so at the expense of other fediverse platforms, and lead to the creation of a new monoculture?
Let Mastodon be Mastodon, and let micro.blog be micro.blog.
@manton.org This sounds great. I'm looking forward to watching all this experimentation and seeing what comes out of it. Exciting times!
@manton truly, I've decided I'm content separating my usage of Mastodon vs. Micro.blog. They scratch different itches for me, and I'm fine accessing them in different ways. But, I see the attraction for some of a more integrated way to follow people in both places.
@manton I am really excited to see how we’re going to answer the questions of open standards, feature diversity and compatibility in the coming years. Good post.
@manton Thank you - interesting post. I signed up to Micro.blog for ideological (IndieWeb, yay!) and technological (WebMentions, ActivityPub, Microformats, even) reasons. Post-Twitter, I am thinking very slow and careful about social media and onlineness, and so am paying more attention to the philosophical reasons. I appreciate that you at Micro.blog have designed out some of the performative aspects of social media - both in the technology (no boosts, trends, follower counts, as you mention), and in the community guidelines and management. It's a pity that few of my IRL friends have chosen Micro.blog, but this doesn't diminsh for me the quality of the space. I know for sure I wouldn't want Micro.blog to be a Mastodon-a-like. For me that would rob the space of its value. I am still thinking about how I tie the contemplative, the performative, and the friendships together - or if I do that at all. Post-Twitter seems to me to be an opportunity for exploration of online existence, and I'm glad Micro.blog continues to plough its own, opinionated furrow.
@manton I like the slow wait and see approach. And yes, IceCubes could be huge for Micro.blog if you were able to make a fork. I’m watching!
@Nezteb I’m a big fan of Micropub. If more clients could support it and Microsub, that would be great.
@manton I am not 100% sure that I understood the discussion correctly. It's about using Ivory directly as a native mirco.blog client and not following people's Mastodon-compatible usernames via a Mastodon instance with Ivory, am I right?
