Micro.blog

#1

Post by smacktoward » Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 3:01 AM UTC

Re: Micro.blog

#2

Post by awb » Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 5:03 AM UTC

> Today's social networks are broken. Hate and harassment are too common. Fake news spreads unchecked.

How will micro.blog be different? Apps start small and friendly, but if you invite everyone in you'll have the same issues unless you have a technology or policy strategy that differs from the current social networks.

Would love to see this succeed, but need more details before I buy in.

Re: Micro.blog

#3

Post by brainless » Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 5:20 AM UTC

This is something that bothers a lot of us for many years. But the solution is not another young idea, which will grow into another walled garden.

We need an easy to deploy open protocol based service. Like XMPP, with easy service discovery. And an open source, fantastic app to go along with it.

Re: Micro.blog

#4

Post by elitistphoenix » Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 5:27 AM UTC

So it like twitter mixed with Google circles (from G+)?

Re: Micro.blog

#5

Post by d--b » Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 5:36 AM UTC

IMHO, one of the biggest issue with social media is with the "micro" story. Tweets'140 characters limit encouraged people to post more because they didn't have to think much about what they had to say. Re-tweets was just a convenient way of copy pasting.

I don't see any of it disappear with micro.blog.

Why not making macro.blog which forces you to write at least 300 words?

Re: Micro.blog

#6

Post by tuukkah » Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 5:39 AM UTC

More info here, mentions RSS, JSON, decentralisation and an open API: http://help.micro.blog/2015/why-i-created-this/

Re: Micro.blog

#7

Post by kabacha » Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 5:40 AM UTC

Why not Federation (diaspora, friendica, hubzilla) or Fediverse (mastodon, pleroma)? This seems like an rss feed subscription rather than social network attempt.

Personally I love diaspora as it's designed around discoverability - following tags, people define themselves with tags etc.

While Fediverse, activity pub etc. are great they are full of holes when it comes to discovery an actual social content. Comments are difficult and non native and navigating tags is nigh on impossible.

Re: Micro.blog

#8

Post by zhte415 » Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 5:43 AM UTC

> 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?

Re: Micro.blog

#9

Post by andrewpk » Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 5:45 AM UTC

elitistphoenix wrote: post #4

So it like twitter mixed with Google circles (from G+)?

No, it's more like rss based twitter. Any blog can become micro.blog compatible, and technically anyone could build a competitor to micro.blog that allows users to register their feeds.

Re: Micro.blog

#10

Post by hylianwarrior » Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 5:53 AM UTC

FYI: After you set up a profile it lets you customize your footer with arbitrary HTML/CSS/JS. It's definitely not secure.

See: http://xss.micro.blog