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I was very pleased to see how easy and quickly I could set up an account and attach the feed from my actual site. (I note that this is all free, which is nice).

I was very pleased to see how easy and quickly I could set up an account and attach the feed from my actual site. (I note that this is all free, which is nice). I find the $5 fee for someone to set up their own site to be perhaps reasonable on the face of it, but I fear that this won't work. I think those who care about decentralization and the decline of walled gardens are also technologically literate enough to know that they could host their own microblog for $5/month and have complete control. On the other hand, people who don't care probably wouldn't want to pay $5/month. I would be very happy if it turns out that there are a large number of people willing to pay, and if RSS-based models flourished. Overall, I like the idea, it was easy to jump in, and good luck.

mixedmath 8y ago
If microblog people are reading this, I have a few other comments. I'd like to emphasize that it's a very clean UI and experience. 1. I wish it were more obvious that I could check out a variety of microblogs at micro.blog/discover --- giving essentially a twitter feed. I somehow missed this entirely on my first go-through, initial setup, and checking of the site. 2. I associated the RSS feed to my own site to microblog. And I expected these posts to show up on davidlowryduda.micro.blog. They don't, it turns out --- those posts are just the ones I made on microblog. They do appear on micro.blog/davidlowryduda. This behavior surprised me. 3. While looking at micro.blog/discover, I replied to a comment. After clicking, poof, the UI didn't give me any sort of feedback that I'd affected the world. I think it should both be more gratifying to reply (if this is a functionality that microblog is encouraging) and that it should be more visually obvious that there are replies to a micropost. Right now, I only see that there does or doesn't exist a "conversation" link --- I wish it were more obviously distinguished.
- bthooper 8y ago
  Regarding point 3 - I've wondered if there is a bit of a delay because micro.blog content can be hosted in a variety of places - a Wordpress blog, a static site, a GitHub page, or micro.blog itself. I think it is relying on webmentions to circulate through the internet to create these conversations. I agree with you concern, but I suspect it is more of a technical challenge because of the way hosting can be de-centralized. @hooper
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mixedmath 8y ago

If microblog people are reading this, I have a few other comments. I'd like to emphasize that it's a very clean UI and experience. 1. I wish it were more obvious that I could check out a variety of microblogs at micro.blog/discover --- giving essentially a twitter feed. I somehow missed this entirely on my first go-through, initial setup, and checking of the site. 2. I associated the RSS feed to my own site to microblog. And I expected these posts to show up on davidlowryduda.micro.blog. They don't, it turns out --- those posts are just the ones I made on microblog. They do appear on micro.blog/davidlowryduda. This behavior surprised me. 3. While looking at micro.blog/discover, I replied to a comment. After clicking, poof, the UI didn't give me any sort of feedback that I'd affected the world. I think it should both be more gratifying to reply (if this is a functionality that microblog is encouraging) and that it should be more visually obvious that there are replies to a micropost. Right now, I only see that there does or doesn't exist a "conversation" link --- I wish it were more obviously distinguished.

bthooper 8y ago
Regarding point 3 - I've wondered if there is a bit of a delay because micro.blog content can be hosted in a variety of places - a Wordpress blog, a static site, a GitHub page, or micro.blog itself. I think it is relying on webmentions to circulate through the internet to create these conversations. I agree with you concern, but I suspect it is more of a technical challenge because of the way hosting can be de-centralized. @hooper

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