@help I added my Mastodon feed to Micro.blog as a source so that my posts are show on the timeline. If someone replies to such a post, shouldn’t the reply be visible as mention on Mastodon? Or that is not how it works. @manton

@amit @pratik The replies would show on your Mastodon-compatible username provided by Micro.blog, not the source Mastodon account you added.

@amit as you’re importing the feed, it will only stay on the Micro.blog end. If I follow you via your Mastodon handle, and see your post, and reply to that, it will show up on Mastodon.

@vincent But that's odd right? I mean I am not importing a feed to my blog. I am just adding it as a source, So the original URL still points to the post on Mastodon. Just the way it does with feeds from other blogging platforms.

I believe the reply to a mastodon post and a non-micro.blog blog posts behave differently. For later a webmention is sent so the replies can be seen outside of micro.blog too. But not for a mastodon post?

Is there no way to send a reply through ActivityPub?

@moonmehta @pratik Yeah, interesting. It's as if a parallel Mastodon account is created and run on Micro.blog. This makes sense when you are adding feeds for an external blog. But defeats the purpose of adding another mastodon profile's feed.

@vincent I believe Micro.blog considers Mastodon feed as just another feed. But not attempting to send a reply back, the way it would with a webmention puzzles me.

@amit Hmmm, I know what you mean. I think if you add it as a source, it will still act as separate to Mastodon, even if these posts don't end up in your blog as such. @manton should be able to answer that though 😉

@amit sources are feeds-- Micro.blog is just reading your Mastodon posts as an RSS feed and importing the content here. When someone replies on Micro.blog they're still replying to the Micro.blog entity, just like if you cross post to Mastodon from MB replying there will just reply to the Mastodon post. You're doing a series of "I want to copy my content, but I don't want it to act like a copy" but that's not how copying works. The Mastodon-compatible name on Micro.blog is the best way by far to do that right now-- but by nature, that's not going to be feature complete with Mastodon. That's not really how interop can work anyway.

@amit you actually are importing a feed when you're adding a source-- that's how it works.

@amit Mastodon does not support sending or receiving webmentions.

@amit Yeah, RSS sources don't work that way. As @jsonbecker said, to get replies, best to use the the full ActivityPub support. Would be cool if it was more integrated but that would probably require Mastodon changes.

@amit @manton @pratik @jsonbecker

I used to import to Micro.blog from Mastodon RSS feed, but I stopped for one big reason.

The images posted from Mastodon are hosted on Mastodon and Micro.blog posts just href them there.

I didn’t realize this until I changed instances and all my image posts were instantly broken. Awful. I truly wish Micro.blog could import images posted from RSS, but hey, the service can’t be expected to do everything. You live and learn.

@indw Thanks for sharing that. Copying the images is still on our to-do list. Hope to get to that soon, it's been in the queue for a while.

@indw I have brought that issue up with @manton, who has mentioned that it's in the works but unsure of the ETA. I want that in my blog hosting service as well, especially if the source ever goes kaput or as in your case, changing instances.