Micro.blog is a
microblogging and
social networking
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service created by Manton Reece. It is the first large multi-user
social media service to support the
Webmention and
Micropub standards published by the
World Wide Web Consortium, and is part of the
Fediverse, supporting
ActivityPub.
Micro.blog has features similar to
Twitter or
Instagram
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, and provides for posting status updates, articles, photos, short podcasts, and video. Micro.blog also supports long-form blogging.
It was launched on April 24, 2017, after a
Kickstarter
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campaign that reached its funding target within one day. The service
was built using
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, and users can post using hosted accounts, then use
RSS
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feeds to export their posts, and syndicate them into the network from other websites they run. Users can also import their posts from
Twitter and the defunct microblogging service
App.net.
Some of the Kickstarter Campaign rewards involved access to a book on Indie Microblogging that Reece committed to writing. A full draft of this now exists (as of 2022-12-22) and is publicly available.
Micro.blog encourages users to publish under their own domain as part of its
suppport for the so-called "POSSE" principles —Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. This publishing model involves the end user posting content to their own domain name based site first, then using web standards to syndicate to multiple other social networks and platforms.
Currently Micro.blog supports syndication to Facebook Pages, as well as to Twitter, Facebook, Medium, LinkedIn,
Mastodon, and
Tumblr accounts. It also supports importing from data exported from WordPress, and supports cross-posting from Instagram to micro.blog.
The web hosting service
DreamHost supported Micro.blog's Kickstarter campaign, and announced their intent to help customers create independent microblogs hosted at DreamHost that are compatible with Micro.blog.
Client applications
* Wavelength
* Sunlit 2.0
* Icro 1.0
* Gluon
See also
*
IndieWeb
References
External links
*
Microblogging software
Blog hosting services
Internet properties established in 2017
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