Micro.blog
micro.blog
Post short thoughts or long essays, share photos, all on your own blog. Micro.blog makes it easy, and provides a friendly community where you can share and engage with others.

After singing up for Tumblr and being sad that they’re not yet (and might never) federate with Activitypub I started digging around fedidb.org and found out about micro.blog.

It’s very similar to Tumblr but federates with Mastodon allowing you and Mastodon users to follow each other. You show up as, my example, jezebelley@thefrequency.blog to ActivityPub users (I had to reset my profile after switching to a custom domain so if you check it now there won’t be any posts. Before I reset my blog was federating perfecly). If you make a blog post of 300 characters or less it gets tossed right into your federated profile page with no click through necessary. Longer posts will be shown along with the rest on your blog domain proper (I.E https://micro.blog/jezebelley)

The catch? It’s not free. $5 gets you basic membership which allows blogging and photo uploads. Non animated only. $10 gets you premium which allows for video/gif hosting along with podcast features if you’re so inclined.

You’re also allowed to bring your own domain, in my case https://thefrequency.blog, to host directly to your custom corner of the web. It’s very simple to setup. If you want to go the super easy route you can sign up directly for a domain in the micro.blog settings with a major downside being you get no registration privacy meaning your URL is subject to WHOIS indexing. A major nono for privacy. I recommend name.com registration independent of micro.blog as you can pay $5 for their privacy package and then import it.

Anyway thought I’d give you all a heads-up for a great Tumblr style option right here on the fediverse!

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
    33·
    6 months ago

    I suspect this is unlikely to take off with Fediverse enthusiasts unless they open source it, or at least have some way people can self-host it and make a micro blogiverse.

    It looks like they had plans to do that at one point. Unclear whether they still plan to do it. Tumblr and blogging honestly seem like the most natural fit for federation. More natural even than Twitter or Reddit. It’d be great to see them do that.

    • technomad@slrpnk.netEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      More natural even than Twitter or Reddit

      I get twitter, but why reddit?

      I really enjoy using lemmy, and couldn’t see a more natural fit for federation. I’ve never been much of a blogger though, so maybe I’m missing something?

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        Because it kinda harkens back to old school blogs, where each person had their own personal blog that they managed themselves, but they would often be part of a community of like-minded blogs which would link through to each other.

    • jezebelley@leminal.spaceOPEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      Tumblr has been put into a maintenance mode of sorts this past year with its fediverse integration plans brought into question. It’s still a possibility albeit less so than when it was announced over a year ago.

      Also the what and how Tumblr plans on integrating is yet to be divulged. To what extent it’ll federate content with the greater AP network isn’t fully understood.

  • Nix@merv.newsEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    Is the paid part just for using their server? Like can I setup my own micro.blog instance and have people sign up for accounts for free and be able to post videos?

    • jezebelley@leminal.spaceOPEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      I don’t think you can self host unfortunately. You can bring your own domain but they host the data.

    • jezebelley@leminal.spaceOPEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Very cool I didn’t even know about this! I downloaded the bookshelf app and it’s pretty neat! It’s called Epilogue on Android.

  • technomad@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    As someone who never used tumbler, why did you like it and what benefits does it have?

  • Chozo@kbin.social
    2·
    6 months ago

    Is Micro.Blog actually federated with ActivityPub? The site says it supports cross-posting to Mastodon, which sounds like it’s more of a post mirroring service than an actually federated instance. I couldn’t find much more clarification on their About page.

    • jezebelley@leminal.spaceOPEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      Yes it’s federated. I’ve tested it. My profile shows up in mastodon. I’m also following lots of mastodon users with my custom domain and their posts show up on my micro.blog timeline.