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Re: Micro.blog

#11

Post by ObsoleteNerd »

awb wrote: post #2

> 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.

There's very little information on the site at all, about any aspects of the service, and yet they want you to pay to use it.

Nothing about how it works, who runs it, privacy policy, where the data is stored... nothing.

Re: Micro.blog

#12

Post by andrewpk »

zhte415 wrote: post #8

> 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…

I 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/

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.

Re: Micro.blog

#14

Post by wowamit »

zhte415 wrote: post #8

> 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…

On fee front, using Micro.blog is free if you host your own site. As the help document mentions (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/) and Privacy policies (http://help.micro.blog/2018/privacy-policy/) are clearly drafted.

Re: Micro.blog

#15

Post by eksemplar »

awb wrote: post #2

> 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.

It’s not really, is it? I think the concept is great, but what’s really needed is ownership and self hosted blogs made easier than they are now.

+ a popular index.

I mean, a centralized blogging service that lets you customise your style sheet a little is basically just MySpace.

Re: Micro.blog

#16

Post by zhte415 »

wowamit wrote: post #14
zhte415 wrote: post #8

> 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…

On fee front, using Micro.blog is free if you host your own site. As the help document mentions ( 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/ ) and Privacy policies ( http://help.micro.blog/2018/privacy-policy/ ) are clearly drafted.

The 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?

Re: Micro.blog

#18

Post by gonzo41 »

So what we're going to do is give you a space on the internet. some sort of space that's all your own. ispace? ownspace? mespace? how about myspace.....

Re: Micro.blog

#19

Post by LaGrange »

d--b wrote: post #5

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?

The short format also encouraged better structuring of arguments and discouraged long, hard to process paragraphs. Together with threading it's often using to fairly significant success.

I don't think a person who can't be bothered to structure their writing for twitter would do much better on a blog. There is a significant difference in legibility, but it's not a clear win; I know both people who process well-written Twitter threads better than the usual article, and people who have struggle with its visual layout.

In the end, I don't think a sweeping dismissal of the format is justified. The website's problems stem far more from excessively bad moderation, not the character limit.

Re: Micro.blog

#20

Post by ddtaylor »

ObsoleteNerd wrote: post #11
awb wrote: post #2

> 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.

There's very little information on the site at all, about any aspects of the service, and yet they want you to pay to use it. Nothing about how it works, who runs it, privacy policy, where the data is stored... nothing.

How much does it cost?
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