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tags:

  • crossposting
  • microblogging
  • platform

Website: https://micro.blog

A blogging platform that supports [[Micropub]].

The core feature is hosting your blog there for 5 / m o n t h . T h e 5/month. The rossposting

It supports aggregating multiple different RSS or JSON Feeds and either importing them into your blog, or just merging them into your Micro.blog feed.

Crossposting#

Feeds can be cross-posted to different networks, including:

  • [[Mastodon]]
  • [[Bluesky]]
  • [[Medium]]
  • [[LinkedIn]]
  • [[Nostr]]
  • [[Tumblr]]
  • [[Flickr]]
  • [[Pixelfed]]

The specification of how cross-posting is configured:1

  • Short posts without a title, and less than 280 characters, will be sent to Twitter unmodified.
  • Longer posts without a title, but longer than 280 characters, will be truncated with a link back to your microblog.
  • Posts with a title, regardless of length, will be sent to Twitter using the title and a link back to your microblog to read the full post.
  • Up to 4 photos embedded in a post are automatically downloaded and attached to your tweet. Photos should be larger than 200×200, to avoid accidentally cross-posting small buttons and tracking images that some blog systems include.
  • The first link in a post will be appended as a URL to the end of the tweet.

The newer write up of how cross-posting works across networks:

Certain rules govern how your cross-posted content will appear. For example, on Mastodon:

  • Short posts without a title, and less than 500 characters, will be sent to Mastodon unmodified.
  • Longer posts without a title, but longer than 500 characters, will be truncated with a link back to your microblog.
  • Posts with a title, regardless of length, will be sent to Mastodon using the title and a link back to your microblog to read the full post.
  • Up to 4 photos embedded in a post are automatically downloaded and attached to your post. Photos should be larger than 200×200, to avoid accidentally cross-posting small buttons and tracking images that some blog systems include.
  • The first link in a post will be appended as a URL to the end of the tweet.

Similar rules apply for the other services, but with different character length restrictions.

Note: It appears that only JSON Feed content works reliably. I have an ongoing thread where Bluesky rich text isn't syndicating, and apparently RSS vs JSON Feed appears to be the culprit.

ActivityPub#

Your Micro.blog account can also be activated as an [[ActivityPub]] account directly.

  1. This is the original write up for Twitter, which is no longer supported. ↩︎