My post from yesterday originated from micro.blog but entirety of the conversation and engagement on this post happened outside of micro.blog platform entirely, and on Mastodon/BlueSky. Had I not cross-posted it, it would’ve been just another post on micro. It made me really think what am I getting out of Micro? Do I use Micro as some “source of truth” and it just gets cross-posted elsewhere for engagement, or do I really think that Micro is the place for both posting and engagement? I feel more and more its the former where a post originates out of here but Micro by itself just a database of posts and nothing more, but then I’d have hoped that Micro became one-stop place to share anything on any platform but it falls so short there (i mean, croissant anyone?). I guess this product will have an identity problem.
Over the holidays I want to see if I can try out ghost platform for hosting my existing wordpress blog, and ideally have one app that cross posts to my blog on ghost, masto and bluesky as required in a simple easy way and not as cumbersome as it is today here. If I can achieve that successfully, I might just cancel my account here and invest in a good paid cross-posting app. Ghost is definitely on top of mind for holidays!