Using Micro.blog for syndication without a Micro.blog blog

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Hi all,

I’ve been trying out Micro.blog for the last few weeks and I really like it. I think the variety of features and the intentional design decisions to encourage an inclusive community are extremely valuable.

That said, i’m not ready to make Micro.blog my main blog at the present time. I did import some posts and try out some features (love the bookshelf feature), but i’m keen to keep building my own website at the moment rather than using another hosted service, even one as good as Micro.blog.

I want to keep my Micro.blog account though so that I can pipe my feed(s) into the timeline, reply to and follow other people, as well as syndicate to Mastodon and Threads. I’m happy to keep my subscription for the privilege (assuming this use case isn’t frowned upon). What i’m unclear about is the relationship between my Micro.blog profile and my Micro.blog blog.

I’ve already set one of my feeds from my external personal site to pull into my Micro.blog timeline, and i’ve set my external address as my website under my account.

However, if I delete my Micro.blog blog (not my account) will this break anything? Will I lose the straydogstrut.micro.blog page? I would like the option to use this again in future but i’m currently i’m not using it (unless this is actually my profile?). If I need to keep it, should I also keep my Archive, Replies and Photos pages (even though I won’t be using them)?

Many thanks.

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I know a few people who do this and don’t pay. I think that’s fine because they are not using Micro.blog resources. You can even set up your WordPress blog to post from the Micro.blog app so I think Micro.blog is fine with people making that choice.

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Thanks for the reply.

I have no issue paying - I believe this is necessary for the cross-posting features I’d like to use - but my query is about what I can/should remove on the blog side given that I won’t be using it.

Happy to just keep an empty blog if that’s the best way to keep the username.micro.blog URL for use in the future.

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Yup. You can remove the Micro.blog-hosted feed to prevent it from posting to the timeline and instead use your other blog’s RSS feed to post to the timeline. I haven’t tried it but I think if you use a WP blog, replies to your posts from Micro.blog timeline will go back to your WP post as comments.