I’m having a bit of friction using micro.blog to cross-post content from other sources, such as my Peertube instance or my itch.io account. In both cases, micro.blog only publishes the title and an image. I’d really like the micro.blog post to at least include a link back to the source so that people can access the relevant content. Ideally, it would also find a description and any tags, and use those when cross-posting elsewhere such as Mastodon. Is there a place where I can customise the way this kind of post is generated and/or formatted? And is there any markup that I could use in the source material to help micro.blog to gather content, e.g. any microformats that it is looking for?
It’s looking entirely to the RSS feed content and won’t look to various elements like tags and categories really. It takes the content of the item and pulls that in as a post as I understand it.
That makes sense, thanks. So, I think if we take the example of my itch.io feed: Latest games by Zoyander Street - itch.io
From the most recent post in this feed, micro.blog was able to import the title “Raccoon vs. Wetherspoons” and the image. However, it didn’t include the url “Raccoon vs. Wetherspoons by Zoyander Street” in the post (edit: ooh I just noticed that the url was automatically turned into a human-readable mention wrapped in a link - that’s perfect! Exactly what I’d hope for on my blog). This means that the post it generated is not useful for readers, because they don’t know how to see the content it is referring to. Given that there’s so little content being shared in this feed, my hope is that it would reproduce the title text again in the post body, and wrap the title text and image in a link to the url (edit: or just do what this platform just did by turning the url into a mention).
Separately to this, it would be really cool to be able to use microformats to get information from the source page onto my micro.blog, but I get that this would be a whole other feature.