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@otaviocc Maybe different from what you’re after, but it looks like there’s an API for fetching highlights.

@axbom Åh, va roligt, vi hör av oss över mejl när konceptet har knådats lite till.

@pratik @rknightuk There can only be one!!1! 😂 But seriously, the more plug-in developers and theme magicians, the better. Thanks for sharing your work with the community, Robb! 🥰

@danielsantos On the search result page, there should be an Add to bookshelf… section where you can add the book to one of your shelves. But only if you’re signed in to your Micro.blog account.

Sometimes when you follow links, they open in in-app browsers or a browser where you’re not signed in. When that happens, you must sign in or switch to a browser where you’re already signed in. Also, see this conversation. Ping @manton.

@msnintendique64 I use the Reminders app for that, with a list called Inbox. It’s my default list. Using the share sheet, I can put almost anything in there for processing later. Websites, files, text selections, whatever. Works with Siri as well.

@maique Oh, tinyMovieStar is so cool! 😎 I miss my last bathrobe. 🐙

@manton Yay! 👏

@Munish Install the No robots plug-in and you should be set.

@ChrisHannah Congrats! 🎉 Interesting read. Did you notice an increase in interactions or subscriptions? For example, Mastodon follows, emails, more requests to the RSS feed, people checking out your app, and so on?

@maique You should write a book! The 7 Minutes Work Week. Would buy. 😊

@pratik The discovery enables plug-ins that could be helpful for blog authors when visiting their own blogs. Like Edit this Post-buttons or even inline editing of blog posts:

This has always been possible, but thanks to the API endpoint @manton shared, it gets much more straightforward to implement.

@axbom P.s. Sanna och jag har dragit igång podden Hej (resten av) internet! I senaste avsnittet, Ett eget hem (eller en trädgård) på nätet, delar vi våra tips på hur en kommer igång med egen domän och webbnärvaro. Många likheter med din checklista. 😊

Vi har en idé om att då och då bjuda in indiewebbiga gäster för samtal om och kring ens hem på webben. Skulle du tycka det vara sköj att vara med?

@axbom Wow, I wish I could have afforded my own domain back in ’97. 🤩 But at 11, that was out of reach. So my home back then was over at home.swipnet.se/~w-31311/…

Wow, that’s excellent news. Thanks, @manton! 🥰 This makes a couple of plug-in ideas I have more feasible.

@matti Ah, sorry, I misread the question. That’s the identifier for the post’s entry on the Micro.blog timeline. It’s currently not possible to get the post identifier from a URL. So you will have to do it the hard way, iterating through the posts looking for a matching permalink. For example, it should be achievable via the XML-RPC API. @manton

@matti You can get it via Conversation.js (example).

@Katedohe Welcome back to the cozy corners of the internet. 😊 I read your “bounce on Twitter” thread and can vouch for the Micro.blog and Buttondown combo – it works well!

@gr36 Yep! New Micro.blog accounts have ActivityPub enabled by default, but if the person you want to follow registered before October 2022, they have to enable it manually.

@MarcoZehe Welcome! Or should I say welcome back? 😊 Good to have you here.

@jean @maique 🤯

@jemostrom Could it be to get more people to vote through peer pressure? The US has a lower voter turnout (62.8 % 2020) than we have here in Sweden (80.3 % 2022). I would wear this sticker. 😊

@maique Nice! Shortcuts are perfect for creating small, helpful tools like that.

@vincent Yeah, that’s a good idea. Potentially, there are multiple ways to follow a fellow Micro.blogger: on the Micro.blog timeline, via webfeeds (RSS), newsletter, and ActivityPub.

All the above should be identifiable automatically for Micro.blog-hosted blogs and could be presented on the person’s profile page. And maybe one should be able to add additional options?

For someone visiting a profile, it could look something like this mockup. Here, I imagine the visitor just tapped the More… button:

@gr36 @topgold Currently, I think the easiest way is by appending this query parameter to the end of their Micro.blog profile URL: ?remote_follow=1. Then, a form for following the person will appear. Example: https://micro.blog/manton?remote_follow=1.

@purisubzi And you can always migrate to another server in the future. You’re not stuck on the instance you choose for all eternity. Unless you want to. 😊

@cliffordbeshers @jean 👏 I love how you write a short program to help you reason. That’s something I do as well. Another date trivia: three different calendar dates can be observed simultaneously for a couple of hours each day.

@gaelicWizard @kandr3s Oops! I removed my original reply by mistake. Here it goes again:

> No custom domain is needed, but you do need to activate ActivityPub.

@kottkrig Ser mysigt ut! 🥁

@adders Yeah, that sucks. You can always create your own RSS feed from the site using tools like RSS.app or Feed Creator or monitor the website for changes using Visualping or one of its competitors.

@chipotle Are you searching using the complete username (including the domain)? For example, @Gargron@mastodon.social and not just @Gargron.

@renevanbelzen Well, I don’t know if I agree with you there. 😊 It’s allowed to bookmark a post you don’t agree with or dislike. I do it sometimes, here and elsewhere, when I don’t have the time to reply immediately.

It’s just a bookmark, a way to keep track of posts you want to reference later: good or bad.

@pratik @lukemperez Yes and yes. 😊 That said, there might be edge cases and kinks that @manton hasn’t worked out yet. It’s not a trivial thing to implement and get right, as there’s a diverse bunch of software out there. So please report any bugs you might stumble upon; it will improve the experience for everyone.

@lukemperez Thanks! Yes, you should be able to follow people from any other ActivityPub-compatible service, like Mastodon, and reply to their posts. It’s documented over at the Help Center.

@topgold @BenSouthwood @hollie @crossingthethreshold @rom @Miraz @jayeless I’m delighted you found it useful. Thanks for reading and sharing! 🥰

@pratik Yes, that is correct. I followed you successfully from my Mastodon account just now.

@jean Wow, that’s a lot of lightbulbs. I hope all that light didn’t affect your sleep. 😅 Thanks for sharing! 🥰

@ndreas @help Have you pointed the root domain to the correct IP address yet? ndreas.eu is still not up for me, but DNS changes might take a while until they propagate.

@thedimpause @pratik That’s right, the timeline display rules are explained over at the Help Center.

@yorrike I didn’t know you, Lefty, but may you rest in pieces. 🪦

@Annie @maique @Bruff Oh, thank you, glad you liked it. 🥰

@ndreas Inte 100 % säker men tror det är för att din blogg är onåbar på ndreas.eu (utan www). Prova att logga in hos din DNS-leverantör (iwantmyname?) och peka även den nakna domänen (ndreas.eu) till Micro.blog-servern.

> If you want both the root domain and www.yourdomain.com to work, you’ll need both an “A” record for the root domain and a “CNAME” record for the “www” version. Also, enter “www.yourdomain.com ” in the settings in Micro.blog. (By including “www”, Micro.blog will know to also enable the root domain version.)

– Custom domains

@ndreas You know how email is this cool thing that mostly just works. You can have an @gmail.com address and send a message to someone with an @hey.com address and vice versa.

Someone else can run the email server on your behalf, or you can run one yourself in a closet from home. You can have one email address, two or five, or how many you want.

Also, you can use whatever client you want. Gmail’s web-based client, a fancy app on your phone, or a text-based one in a terminal. They might have different features and user experiences, but they all “speak email.”

All this is possible thanks to a set of rules. A bunch of protocols. You might have heard of SMTP and IMAP, for example.

Imagine for a while an alternative world where social media worked the same way as email. That you could write to your Instagram friends from your Twitter account. Or follow that old aunt who still has Facebook from your TikTok account.

There would have to exist a set of rules for how all this should work. A social network protocol. And, of course, Twitter and all the others would have to support that protocol. The chance of them doing that is pretty slim because of… well, money.

But protocols for making it happen already exist. ActivityPub is one such protocol. ActivityPub is for social networking, what SMTP is for email.

And Mastodon is one piece of software with support for ActivityPub. Pixelfed is another (Instagram-like), PeerTube a third, and Owncast a fourth (YouTube-like and Twitch-like). And they can all talk to one another, thanks to ActivityPub.

Micro.blog is another service with support for ActivityPub. So to split hairs, when you’re “activating your Mastodon-compatible username”, you’re really activating ActivityPub support. So people on Mastodon will be able to follow you and vice versa. But the same is true for Pixelfed and PeerTube. Or any other software supporting ActivityPub.

Just like it’s up to you how many email addresses you have and which providers and clients you use, it’s up to you which ActivityPub-compatible services you use and how many identities you want.

Micro.blog and Mastodon can talk to each other but differ regarding features. For example, Micro.blog has bookshelves and newsletters while Mastodon has boosts (retweets) and favorites (likes). And so on.

It’s different services. You won’t be able to log in on your Mastodon instance with your Micro.blog account (or the other way around).

Micro.blog is not Mastodon, similar to how Gmail is not HEY. But users on respective services can communicate thanks to shared protocols.

@warner Hmm, I assumed those Shortcuts still worked, but I see now that might not be the case. So you’re probably better off building a Shortcut using @vincode’s Humboldt.

@warner You could, but the timeline will open as well. I’ve set up a Shortcut for making quick posts. When triggered (via keyboard shortcut, dock, or “Hey Siri, new post”), I’m presented with this:

I write my post, hit Done, and it’s on its way. (Old iOS screenshot, but it runs on macOS as well.) @gr36 published two Shortcuts you can use as a starting point in his post How To Publish To Micro.blog With iOS Shortcuts.

@Mandalorian Give me a shout if you ever find yourself in the Götaland region and want to meet up for beers or fika.

@wnknisely Next time it happens, you could try forcing a complete rebuild of your site by hitting the button on the logs page. If that fixes the problem, @manton might have to look into why that is.

Maybe @danielpunkass has theories of what might be going on as well? (If it happens explicitly when you post from MarsEdit.)

@hollie Yay! 🙌

@vincent Yay, congrats! 🥳