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> There's a better way: a network of independent microblogs. Short posts like tweets but on your own web site that you control. I have this. I have a website
by zhte415 8y ago
> There's a better way: a network of independent microblogs. Short posts like tweets but on your own web site that you control.
I have this. I have a website and domain that I control and that I can post anything to I like. Could be long posts too.
If independent, why need a fee not a protocol?
> Includes a free 10-day trial. Cross-posting to Twitter, a custom domain name, themes, pages, an iOS app, Mac app, and more. Just $5/month. (You can also use Micro.blog for free with an existing blog.)
There's Mastodon. There's also email. I like email for social networking too.
$5 is also the cost of my hosting my own site, VPN, Wiki, and anything I'd care to add. My app is Firefox.
As a, at this point not very but potentially still a potential user, I'm concerned in particular that there is no Terms of Service on registration, none at all. While XX.X% of people may click through a ToS, there simply isn't one there and you propose hosting, or linking, or providing a social identity, or receiving funds, not clear, with no contract of service?
- andrewpk 8y agoI believe the base account where you can choose a username and add your rss feed is free. I've never paid, but it shows up that there are options to pay $2 for cross posting, $5 for a hosted micro blog, or $10 for a hosted microblog + microcast(podcast?) hosting. I think the whole premise is that if you a have a blog with an RSS feed, you can add it and it'll show up in micro.blog as concatenated posts, or you can take extra steps to make sure your blog supports the small post formats or whatever. There's a little guide to setting up wordpress here - http://help.micro.blog/2018/setting-up-wordpress/ http://help.micro.blog/2018/setting-up-wordpress/ The hard part for me is motivating myself to actually get my blog up and running because I have VPS's for so many other things that it seems silly for me to also pay for micro.blog hosting when I could just get my blog together.
- wowamit 8y agoOn fee front, using Micro.blog is free if you host your own site. As the help document mentions (http://help.micro.blog/2018/pricing/ http://help.micro.blog/2018/pricing/), you can add your feeds from your external blogs and only use social aspect of Micro.blog. I guess, though not right on front there, the ToS (http://help.micro.blog/2018/tos/ http://help.micro.blog/2018/tos/) and Privacy policies (http://help.micro.blog/2018/privacy-policy/ http://help.micro.blog/2018/privacy-policy/) are clearly drafted.
- zhte415 8y agoThe ToS and Privacy Policies links you posted are nowhere to be seen on the front page, registration page, or indeed any page that is clickable on visiting the link. Where's the about page? Whois just has tucows REDACTED FOR PRIVACY. Could you also link to an About page via HN instead of clearly posting on your own website?
- SyneRyder 8y ago> Whois just has tucows REDACTED FOR PRIVACY. That's the same for every domain right now. You can thank the GDPR for that, it wiped out Whois globally and doesn't provide an option for you to say "actually I do want my details published in Whois". ICANN is currently suing Tucows about it: https://www.tucows.com/blog/2018/05/28/tucows-statement-on-icann-legal-action/ https://www.tucows.com/blog/2018/05/28/tucows-statement-on-i...
- zhte415 8y agoI can blame that the of an about page for there being a lack of an about page.