The fediverse is getting a bit messy for me over in Micro.blog-land. No fault of the platform, but when people have and use both a MB account and a Mastodon one (or now Threads), I have to follow them all to not miss their replies to other people. And when they crosspost, I see everything twice. 😑
I’m not opposed to people using both, but it’d be better (for me) if they chose a primary place from which they do all their interactions. And if they told people which account they should follow/mention.
(By the way, I’m a proponent for the option in Micro.blog to limit what you see on the timeline to people’s original posts and their replies only to accounts that you follow. It cuts way down on the busy-ness of the timeline. 👍 But I do want to see all the replies to and from my online friends, which is tricky when they have multiple accounts.)
I keep them separate, (with a couple of exceptions), makes it easier for me to grok.
yeah this seems unsolvable to me, sadly. I think replies are kind of a mess on the web right now with no good answers. Webmentions kind of suck, ActivityPub seems only marginally better.
@jsonbecker I find IndieWeb hella confusing, and I am more sophisticated than 99.9% of social media/blog users. Webmentions are part of that confusion
@odd How do you keep them separate? Only follow users on their native platform? I only have/use Micro.blog for all my Fediconversing, so that’d be tricky.
@MitchW @jsonbecker I’m optimistic that it’s a short-term problem. Maybe once this ActivityPub stuff gets ironed out (hopefully with all the platforms talking to each other) people will settle on their One True Platform it’ll become a non-issue.
Yes, and I have followed people from Micro.Blog over on Mastodon, (their social.lol account or something else). So if either are having downtime, I can use the other. Everyone isn’t at both places of course…
I share your optimism. I’d love to get BlueSky into the Fediverse in some fashion. I expect the BlueSky dev/management team would be all in on that, but Mastodon users might resist.
As I just said elsewhere, some weeks ago @jsonbecker convinced me to lean in harder on micro.blog and not fuss so much about posting manually to other platforms.
I’d love it if the blue Facebook app would open up to the world once again. I know that seems unlikely now, but the tech industry has seen pivots like that before; Microsoft has done so at least twice.
@MitchW Micro.blog has done some really interesting work with Bluesky that makes it seem almost like a regular Fediverse citizen. I have an account there that gets crossposts automatically from Micro.blog. MB pulls in replies to those crossposts as native mentions and I can even reply to them from MB and it’ll put those back on Bluesky. So I never go into Bluesky or make replies with my account there, but I can still interact with people who reply to my posts there.
Facebook federating seems like a non-starter. Billions of users with posts dating back two decades? I can’t even imagine how you’d retrofit ActivityPub into that. But what do I know?
All I ask from Facebook is that they provide some easy way to automatically share posts from micro.blog to there, same as I can do with Tumblr.
Well, that’s not everything. I’d also like to be able to read my Facebook comments here. But even the first thing would make me happy.
And yes I do love what Micro.blog has been doing with Bluesky. @manton
@MitchW That would be nice. Making it easy for getting things in seems like it’d be in their best interest.