Hello,
I am need help for the Mastodon stuff. I have already a Mastodon account. And add this account to the cross-posting configuration on account page. This works fine.
What about the mastodon configuration. I am not sure that I’ve understood what is this about. What are the advantages with this. Can anyone clearify this for me?
Thanks a lot
Thorsten
The Mastodon-compatible setting allows someone on Mastodon to follow your Micro.blog account directly, without you needing to ever sign in to Mastodon itself. In fact, there is no “real” Mastodon account to sign into. It’s just Micro.blog. Replies go back and forth between the platforms.
It’s a personal preference how you want to use this.
For me, I don’t use Mastodon and instead just post to my Micro.blog blog. Mastodon people can follow me and I can follow them. All good.
For other people, they might like having a separate Mastodon account, so the cross-posting from Micro.blog to Mastodon is a good way to post to both services at the same time. For them, they can even disable the Mastodon-compatible username in Micro.blog if they really won’t use it.
I have both a Mastodon account and a microblog account. People follow me on both. At times I have had cross-posting switched on to my Mastodon account. Currently, I just post to micro.blog, and, if the post is short, I then re-blog it from my Mastodon account.
Micro.blog posts are limited to 300 characters on Mastodon. So if a micro.blog post of mine is 300 to 500 characters, often I will post it manually to Mastodon.
This is all less complicated than it sounds.
The fediverse is changing rapidly, so I figure whatever I do now is temporary.
PS: I dictated this message with Siri, which typed fediverse as “feta verse,” which I quite like.
Hi Manton, I’m posting on this old thread because I figure it’s somewhat related -
But is there a way to have Micro.blog post to an already existing Mastodon account? I have several hundred followers on my Mas.to account, but there seems to be no easy way to integrate that already existing presence with Micro.blog. By only being able to cross-post to a Micro.blog generated Mastodon feed, that seems to me, if I understand the process correctly, to be nearly just as much of a silo’d experience as forgoing Mastodon altogether? It doesn’t solve the problem of sharing my Micro.blog content with my followers, I would still have to grab a link and do it manually, or set up a service with a.gupp.e to sync my two accounts (though that would require I direct people to follow that account as well anyways.)
Will there ever be a way to cross-post to any linked account in the way that most other cross-posting services work, like the way Wordpress used to post to one’s Twitter?
I’m not Manton but maybe I can be helpful. I’m pretty sure you can already do that.
Instructions:
Instructions are focused on Twitter, but the same procedure applies to Mastodon, with the chief exception being that the Mastodon character limit is 500 rather than 280.
Additional background:
Oh fantastic! I’ll take a closer look after work. Thanks for explaining.
First of all, I hope it is fine that I bump this old thread, but it pretty much relates to a question that I wanted to ask before jumping into Micro.blog:
I have a Mastodon account which has always been my main account. I like the idea of using Micro.blog to create a some sort of social blog to which I can post small updates. The fact that I can cross-post this then to Micro.blog’s own timeline, as well as Mastodon, Bluesky, and LinkedIn sounds incredible intriguing.
However, now I am thinking about if there are any benefits of migrating my philipptemmel@micro.blog account to my existing Mastodon account which is philipp@mastodon.design. Why would I do that? I guess I could just keep posting to Micro.blog, cross-post it to other networks and depending on where I get a reply, use that network to reply to those, right? Sorry if that all sounds stupid to you, but I just want to fully understand any pros and cons.
Basically, I would love to join the Micro.blog community, have a social blog and cross-post to my main Mastodon account, as well as Bluesky, and maybe some other networks. Do I need to worry about migrating my micro.blog handle to my existing Mastodon account, or am I good to go with just cross-posting?
Thank you in advance!
This is an exact description of what cross-posting does. Think of cross posting as “Automatically taking my Micro.blog post and copy and pasting it into that other service and posting from my existing account.”
It’s not exactly that, because there are some differences in content presentation, but it’s pretty close.
For example, you can see anything I post on json.blog on my account jsonbecker@indieweb.social. I also let people follow my blog directly in Mastodon or other ActivityPub services using json@json.blog. If they reply to my crossposts on jsonbecker@indieweb.social, it shows up in my Mastodon client. If they reply to json@json.blog, it shows up inside of Micro.blog.
You don’t have to choose one or the other, and you don’t have to migrate any accounts if you don’t want to.
Awesome, thank you so much for your fast reply, that cleared up a lot!
Quick follow up: Since you mentioned you let people follow your blog directly in Mastodon and you are cross-posting to jsonbecker@indieweb.social, does that mean that whenever you post to json.blog, you will have duplicate posts in the fediverse? Do they then both show up?
Yup-- it’s just like having two separate accounts in a way. Choose whichever you want to follow for whatever reason.
Got it, thank you so much for your help!