@twelvety I see you have consumed your “free with an account” cup of the official Micro.blog Kool-Aid :-) Welcome, and enjoy!
(And also, if you have suggestions about things to put into writing that would make various writings about Micro.blog more instuctive, I think everyone’s all ears—it is a tough nut to crack, and “just try it; you’ll understand it then” is a remarkably hard sell sometimes.)
@smokey Oh yes, I'm sold. Just became a paid member yesterday. I admit, I'm a self-professed tech nerd and I got a little confused about external feeds flowing into your m.b profile, vs. m.b posts flowing out to external blogs, but I think I get it now. I probably just won't use my actual m.b-hosted blog for much besides short posts. My real, full blog will still live elsewhere and the RSS will flow in here. Until I figure out a better setup!
@twelvety What helped me was to think of M.b (and what shows up under one’s profile) as a planet, a feed aggregator, since that was familiar to me, and that a M.b-hosted blog, and any other sort of blog or RSS feed, was just one of the sources feeding into it. But I know that comparison doesn’t work for everyone.
And lots of people do short on the M.b hosted and long elsewhere (so you’re in good company)—plus every other sort of combination one can possibly imagine.
@smokey Good analogies! And the funny thing for me is, I lasted all of one day with feeding my old external Statamic blog into m.b. I had forgotten what a chore it was, even with my time-saving workflows in Drafts and Editorial, to create a post, give it a title, upload it, blah blah blah. I'm going all in on my hosted m.b blog and starting fresh now. I feel lighter!
