On blogging and intentional sharing ardisson.org

@smokey nice post. i still have have this issue though: having chosen m.b as my only blogging platform, there doesn’t appear to be any way to have some of my posts go just to my m.b-hosted blog and not into my timeline. if anyone can help me with this i’d be most grateful.

@tones There's no setting or switch of any kind but you should be able to use categories for that. For example, you set up all of the posts for your timeline to be "Micro":

• Take this feed: tones.micro.blog/categories/micro/feed.xml ->
• Go to Account -> Edit Feeds & Cross-posting ->
• Add the feed URL ->
• Make sure there is no general feed like: tones.micro.blog/feed.json ->
• Make sure to use the "Micro" category when posting to the timeline.

To do this you'd need to make sure you're using the official apps with categories support or any third-party app that includes category support. Although, you can also edit your posts on the web or in the Mac app to give them categories after the fact.

@smokey What an excellent article about intentional blogging! Thanks for sharing your wisdom on this. That article should actually be linked in the Help pages, I feel. @manton

@tones Excellent! I hadn't properly tested it myself so it's good to know it worked.

@simonwoods @tones I thought that was probably possible. Thanks, Simon, for providing the actual steps instead of the theorizing I offered last night, and tones for verifying it does work. (I assume TIL will offer up a formal Tip post soon?)

@Miraz Thanks. I’m not sure it’s so much “my wisdom” as the wisdom of the Micro.blog community filtered through my brain—we have a lot of people who write about being intentional in doing X here, so I just mixed what I’d learned of that ethos with @Cheri’s and @EddieHinkle’s recent well-put comments :-)

@simonwoods fyi this trick doesn't work for pics for some reason but i'm okay with that.

@tones @simonwoods That’s odd…photos should be just like any other post…? Are you saying they post to the Timeline even without having the post-to-timeline category set?

@smokey no, when i send pic posts to the timeline with the category, the pics don’t go through.

@tones @smokey Oh, that's disappointing and a little odd. I'll do some testing and reporting and the like; I'd say this is at least a decent feature request.

And yep, Smokey, you nailed it; this is good Tip material.

@tones @simonwoods Really bizarre. At first I thought it might have been the relative-URL thing I found on Khaled’s site, but if that were the case, photos never would have shown up at all from hosted blogs, so that’s not it…. (Simon, if you don’t find a smoking gun when you test, ping me and I’ll take a look at your tests, too. Eyes and shallow bugs and all that.)