@Mandalorian agree
@Mandalorian It’s more a “social media” to me than a blogging platform, but it also is that, whenever I get the urge to commit to a (hopefully) thought through article. I guess it’s about perspective though. I don’t consider most of what I share as blogging.
@frostedechoes @chriskrycho Agreed with this, I don’t think having micro in the name should preclude long form blogging. Definitely more than capable of it.
@pimoore @frostedechoes to be clear I don’t have an opinion at all about how people use it. I just see it as a natural consequence of naming and positioning: there are lots of options for longer-form blogging, and people tend to be drawn here for an alternative to Twitter for, well… microblogging, for which there are many fewer such alternatives.
@chriskrycho This is a great point, Micro.blog and Mastodon are the two best alternatives to Twitter-style microblogging. The key difference of course being that Mastodon doesn’t have the option for traditional blog posts as well—not that it takes away from its usefulness or community aspect.
@pimoore @chriskrycho @frostedechoes @JMaxB @odd @hawaiiboy @Mandalorian see, to me, Micro.blog is 75% blogging platform, with 25% social.
@Gaby @chriskrycho @frostedechoes @JMaxB @odd @hawaiiboy @Mandalorian This is how I feel as well, but Micro.blog’s flexibility in this regard is one of its best features. Everyone can use the platform in different ways, but still reap the rewards of the community and the service itself.
@Gaby @pimoore @chriskrycho @frostedechoes @JMaxB @odd @hawaiiboy @Mandalorian A little late but, for me, it’s everything. Long form, short form, social network. I believe it does it all very well. No other service that I’m aware of does it in quite the same way. You can use as much, or as little. It’s up to you.
@frostedechoes Yeah 🙂 Have a blog? Doesn’t matter. Want to host it here? We’ll do it, but it’s fine if it’s hosted somewhere else. Want a photo blog? We’re good with that as well, even have an app for it? Podcast? Sure, we’ll take care of that? Crosspost? Import from here and there? It just works…
