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We may not be on the same page, but we're probably at least on adjacent pages. :) I should be clear that I like Mastodon despite all my complaints -- it's just
by chipotle_coyote 9y ago
We may not be on the same page, but we're probably at least on adjacent pages. :)
I should be clear that I like Mastodon despite all my complaints -- it's just that I often feel as if I like it more in theory than practice. I've had better luck with Micro.blog, which is a different approach to the same problem (i.e., own your own content), built on top of webmentions and syndication feeds. But I'm not sure it's really a better approach, just different.
- iuguy 9y agoOooh Micro.blog looks interesting. Is it open source?
- chipotle_coyote 9y agoI don't think the timeline bits are, although I think it's under consideration. (Sorry for being extremely fuzzy there.) I know you don't actually have to pay for hosting with them, which I don't think they do a great job of communicating yet -- a hosted Micro.blog is actually just Jekyll with a web front end, and there are people using their own Jekyll setups, or WordPress, or a few other solutions. (I'm pretty sure the timeline is actually built on top of JSON Feed and webmentions.)