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djsolar913<p>Day 2 of the second half of the year.<br>Health : 3 day in a row walking 6000 steps + uoga for upper back and neck health. <br>Mood: happy. Just had a laugh with my cat Aki (pictured below)<br>Intention : experimentar mi plenitud, conciente en cada momento. Experience each second and each breath as sacred. <br><a href="https://ieji.de/tags/microblog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microblog</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElSalvador</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/mindfulness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mindfulness</span></a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/catsofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>catsofmastodon</span></a></p>
🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Automattic</span></a>, owners of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wordpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wordpress</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tumblr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tumblr</span></a>, have decided not to migrate Tumblr to Wordpress meaning that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> for Tumblr is only going to happen if they implement it in Tumblr itself. </p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/693052/automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-wordpress-drama-wp-engine-open-source#:~:text=You%20migrated%20the,Tumblr%20code%20base" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w</span><span class="invisible">ith-nilay-patel/693052/automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-wordpress-drama-wp-engine-open-source#:~:text=You%20migrated%20the,Tumblr%20code%20base</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microblog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microblog</span></a></p>
Tyler K. Nothing<p>You know, I might just go back to <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Notes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Notes</span></a> if this rumor is true. Fortunately we’ll find out soon. I’d love to be able to write up notes and short stories on a whim, then export them as <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>markdown</span></a> to drop straight into <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Microblog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microblog</span></a>. <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/apps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apps</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/WWDC2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WWDC2025</span></a> <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/04/apple-notes-markdown" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daringfireball.net/linked/2025</span><span class="invisible">/06/04/apple-notes-markdown</span></a></p>
JL Johnson :veri_mast:<p>Micro.blog looks interesting. Love the fedi integration. Cheap, too. And the 30 day photo challenge is genius. </p><p>I don’t have a need for it personally, but imagine TONS of folks do or will. I wish them success ❤️</p><p>Thanks <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://avgeek.social/@rpmik" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rpmik</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://twit.social/@leo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>leo</span></a></span> for piquing my interest. </p><p><a href="https://vmst.io/tags/MicroBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MicroBlog</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/FediFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediFirst</span></a></p>
Maximum MEW<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@tchambers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tchambers</span></a></span> I'm thinking of moving from self-hosted WordPress to <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Microblog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microblog</span></a>. Is there a decent variety of themes?</p>
Seth Of The Fediverse!<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@tchambers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tchambers</span></a></span> Awesome! <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Microblog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microblog</span></a> is great.</p>
Tim Chambers<p>A note: I now use <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Microblog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microblog</span></a> for over half my social posting, cross-posting feaatures to Bluesky, Medium, Threads, Tumbr, etc….&amp; I now use <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Surfapp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Surfapp</span></a> from <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Flipboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Flipboard</span></a> for over half the time - to read, engage, &amp; reply on Bluesky, Mastodon, and many RSS feeds. Open Social Web FTW! cc: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://manton.org/activitypub/manton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>manton</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.social/@surf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>surf</span></a></span></p>
Tim Chambers<p>A note: I now use #Microblog for over half my social posting, cross-posting feaatures to Bluesky, Medium, Threads, Tumbr, etc….&amp; I now use #Surfapp from #Flipboard for over half the time - to read, engage, &amp; reply on Bluesky, Mastodon, and many RSS feeds. Open Social Web FTW!</p>
Ecologia Digital<p>"…one of the larger challenges of multi-feed aggregation apps like <a href="https://mato.social/tags/Tapestry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tapestry</span></a> is that you’re often confronted with duplicates as other users cross-post their updates to multiple services like <a href="https://mato.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a>, <a href="https://mato.social/tags/Bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bluesky</span></a>, and <a href="https://mato.social/tags/Microblog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microblog</span></a>. <br>The latest Tapestry update is now able to automatically filter out these duplicates, even when the posts are not written exactly the same…if a longer Mastodon post were edited down to meet Bluesky’s 300-ch limit, it would still be able to detect."<br><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/08/tapestrys-app-can-now-de-dupe-your-social-feeds/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2025/04/08/tape</span><span class="invisible">strys-app-can-now-de-dupe-your-social-feeds/</span></a></p>
Tyler K. Nothing<p>After some rather significant technical gymnastics some very smart people (myself not included) seem to have employed a fix to get <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Microblog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microblog</span></a> to <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> crossposting working again with my setup! Here now is a test post to see how it works :) Documentation sometime next week for the benefit of other admins, as long as everything remains stable 😁🤞 <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/serveradmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>serveradmin</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a></p>
Alexandra<p>Eh, okay, where have all my posts gone on Micro Blog? </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mattlangford.com/activitypub/matt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>matt</span></a></span> I just upgraded to the new Sumo and I noticed I only have half my posts in the Archive. Or is this something I need to tag <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://manton.org/activitypub/manton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>manton</span></a></span> about?</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/microblog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microblog</span></a></p>
Fractal Kitty<p>I have a new post on my experimental journal and on how it's going, implemented, and may change. I may also have noted a way to get digital bird stickers. </p><p><a href="https://www.fractalkitty.com/streamof-me/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">fractalkitty.com/streamof-me/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/streamOfMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>streamOfMe</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/journal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journal</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/mathOfMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mathOfMe</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/cinquain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinquain</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/birding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>birding</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/microBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microBlog</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/localFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>localFirst</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/rss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rss</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/indieWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indieWeb</span></a></p>
Michael :verified: :mastodon:<p>I don’t want to say this too loudly, but I’m enjoying using ChatGPT to help with my home server and website stuff. It’s helped personalize my Micro.blog site. I might end up paying for it to access more advanced features. Gemini, on the other hand, has regressed into junk. <a href="https://mitchelltribe.social/tags/Microblog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microblog</span></a> <a href="https://mitchelltribe.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a></p>
Thibaultmol 🌈 🔜@WHY2025<p><a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/microblog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microblog</span></a> is pretty cool how it allows you to leave comments by logging into your fedi account and such.... But .... does it really need to have full account permissions?.... I'm not giving it that, sorry)</p><p>example of a micro.blog site: <a href="https://taonaw.com/2024/12/11/kagi-bangs-and.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">taonaw.com/2024/12/11/kagi-ban</span><span class="invisible">gs-and.html</span></a></p>
Gavin<p>Does anyone have a Micro.blog site that I could take a look at? <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/microblog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microblog</span></a></p>
elliot.my<p>Dave Winer has been <a href="http://scripting.com/2024/10/11/132736.html?title=theWebLives" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">talking about</a> how he’s hooked up <a href="https://daveverse.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">his WordPress</a> blog to Mastodon.1 He raved about the posabilities it opens up. But he was light about how to do actually go about setting it up.</p><p>It seems like you need to:</p><ul><li>Install <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ActivityPub WordPress plugin</a>.</li><li>Click the checkbox of ‘Enable Blog-Profile’ in the settings of the plugin.</li><li>That’s it? After that it seems like it just works. For example, you can follow this elliot.my blog by searching <code>@blog@elliot.my</code> in Mastodon of other ActivityPub sites. Here’s the profile on <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@blog@elliot.my" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Mastodon.cloud</a> and <a href="https://micro.blog/blog@elliot.my" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Micro.blog</a>.</li></ul><p>I’m hoping this post will show up!</p><p><strong>Update</strong>: this is me doing an update to see if it gets picked up by the Fediverse.</p><p><strong>Update 2</strong>: it only bloodly works! Not only the post – even the body of the post appears! But also the edits. The edit I’m writing right now I’m sure will be picked up.</p><p><strong>Update 3</strong>: Mastodon updates when I update here, but Micro.blog doesn’t. Oh well.</p><ol><li>Or more specifically <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ActivityPub</a>. ↩︎</li></ol><p><a href="https://elliot.my/224" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://elliot.my/224</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://elliot.my/tag/activitypub" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://elliot.my/tag/fediverse" target="_blank">#Fediverse</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://elliot.my/tag/mastodon" target="_blank">#Mastodon</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://elliot.my/tag/micro-blog" target="_blank">#MicroBlog</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://elliot.my/tag/plugin" target="_blank">#Plugin</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://elliot.my/tag/technology" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://elliot.my/tag/this-blog" target="_blank">#ThisBlog</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://elliot.my/tag/wordpress" target="_blank">#WordPress</a></p>
73% Geek<p>Due to various happenings *gestures vaguely at WordPress* I’m moving away from WordPress, but to what? </p><p>At first I was thinking about hand-coding or self-hosting something but these days I don’t think I’m up for it tbh. </p><p>So, any opinions on micro.blog vs write.as for a simple personal blog that has a photo or two a day, but other than that requires nothing fancy. Or recommendations for some other platform I’m not aware of? </p><p><a href="https://vmst.io/tags/AskFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AskFedi</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WordPress</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/MicroBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MicroBlog</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blogging</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/WriteAs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WriteAs</span></a></p>
Cesar Delgado<p>Testing experimental first post from micro.blog to most socials including Threads. If you see this can you please go visit my site? I’d like to know the reach. <a href="https://labrat.info" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">labrat.info</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microBlog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theeads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theeads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/crossPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crossPost</span></a> <a href="https://labrat.info" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">labrat.info</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Mark R. Stoneman<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://manton.org/activitypub/manton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>manton</span></a></span> The difference in post lengths and thumbnail creation make it harder for me to use the feature than I'd like, but Dave Winer's link blog is an excellent use case. </p><p>I also constantly recommend <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MicroBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MicroBlog</span></a> whenever people complain about multiple platforms. </p><p>These almost always come on Threads. Indeed, it might make sense to set up a Micro.blog account on that platform and perhaps Bluesky simply to highlight more what you're doing.</p>
Simon Campbell<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.art/@suzystarlite" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>suzystarlite</span></a></span> and I are easing back a little on social media posts, so we apologise for our seeming absence.</p><p>The good news is that we regularly post on <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>substack</span></a> notes, which is part of our blog VIBES. Take a look...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MicroBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MicroBlog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>life</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/FediMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediMusic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MastoMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoMusic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/FediArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediArt</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://vibes.starlite-campbell.com/p/join-us-on-notes" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vibes.starlite-campbell.com/p/</span><span class="invisible">join-us-on-notes</span></a></p>