Marty McGuire
https://martymcgui.re/
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Apr 21
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aaronpk_tv
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I had the same thought after I got an immersion blender!
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smokey
https://micro.blog/smokey
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Apr 21
@cleverdevil Perhaps there wasn’t enough of a market before now for WordPress et al. to invest resources into a migration tool/service (there was obviously a desire, because all those tools you strung together), but in the current climate, it does seem like there’s a greater need. Maybe someone is frantically building one right now?
I’d seen several people asking here about getting their photos out of Instagram, so it’s a shame that InstaLooter isn’t non-tech-friendly (or that someone hasn’t deployed it behind a web service on a server somewhere)….
And I like the idea of the “on this day” stuff that you and @colinwalker have built for yourselves. The more pieces of the siloed experience that we can easily replicate on the open web, the better :-)
a few years ago I made a service "Flickstagram" which would migrate all your Instagram photos to your Flickr. I'm tempted to do something similar again, except it imports everything to your micro.blog or Wordpress or other Micropub website -
ablaze
https://micro.blog/ablaze
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Apr 20
@aaronpk I can't even fathom how I could add that just by putting some markup in the site header or whatever, but I look forward to finding out.
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Looking forward to seeing everyone there! 🎉
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Eddie Hinkle
https://eddiehinkle.com/
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Yeah, he definitely wants to add it. The main challenge he has currently is where are the photos hosted for people who reply using the micro.blog app? For people who host their replies like us, it’s fine. But unless micro.blog posts the replies to the hosted accounts/Wordpress accounts, then micro.blog the service would have to have photo hosting. So until he decides which way to go he’s held off on allow photo replies. If we can do it but others can’t then that would open up even more questions.
oh interesting, I guess that makes sense. Tho I kind of like the sound of photo replies as a gateway drug to the indieweb. -
Eddie Hinkle
https://eddiehinkle.com/
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micro.blog doesn’t support photos in replies, only initial posts. That’s what happened :)
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ablaze
https://micro.blog/ablaze
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Apr 20
@aaronpk I can't even fathom how I could add that just by putting some markup in the site header or whatever, but I look forward to finding out.
That's the power of the IndieWeb! -
ablaze
https://micro.blog/ablaze
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Apr 20
@aaronpk I don't see the screenshot, but I will devour this article.
I'm not sure what happened, I thought micro.blog allows photos, but here's a link: https://aaronparecki.com/2018/04/19/28/ -
ablaze
https://micro.blog/ablaze
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Apr 20
@aaronpk Well that I can certainly do, but what is it? What does it do?
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ablaze
https://micro.blog/ablaze
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Apr 20
@aaronpk Well that I can certainly do, but what is it? What does it do?
Wait til tomorrow! That post will explain it better! In the mean time, here's a screenshot! -
ablaze
https://micro.blog/ablaze
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Apr 20
@aaronpk Oh yeah, Squarespace has all the Legos a basic grown-up's website needs, but I can't, say, extend it to publish to or from some API. It's the from part that's particularly impossible. There's no way for me to get stuff into my site other than Squarespace's way.
Oh also, if you can add a bit of custom html to your website then you too can use a Microsub reader like mine! -
ablaze
https://micro.blog/ablaze
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Apr 20
@aaronpk Sorry, I was euphemistically referring to Squarespace, because they advertise on every podcast, and I was ashamed to name them. I have gone the "let me pay you to take care of this for me" route.
That is to say, being indie just means being in control, and not being tied to a specific service. It's totally not about hosting everything in a server in your house or anything! -
ablaze
https://micro.blog/ablaze
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Apr 20
@aaronpk Sorry, I was euphemistically referring to Squarespace, because they advertise on every podcast, and I was ashamed to name them. I have gone the "let me pay you to take care of this for me" route.
That is to say, being indie just means being in control, and not being tied to a specific service. It's totally not about hosting everything in a server in your house or anything! -
ablaze
https://micro.blog/ablaze
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Apr 20
@aaronpk Sorry, I was euphemistically referring to Squarespace, because they advertise on every podcast, and I was ashamed to name them. I have gone the "let me pay you to take care of this for me" route.
Doesn't matter where you host your website as long as you have your own domain name! I didn't even realize your website was hosted there! And if you want, you can change where it's hosted and I wouldn't have to do anything different to access it. -
ablaze
https://micro.blog/ablaze
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Apr 20
@aaronpk Yeah, I love what you're building there. My main problem with fully participating in the indie world is that my website is incredibly not-indie. I have given myself over to a certain prolific podcast advertiser for that. It's hard to resist.
wait what does podcast advertising have to do with your website not being indie? I see you have your own domain name, and one for your podcast! That's how it starts! -
ablaze
https://micro.blog/ablaze
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Apr 20
@aaronpk Well most of the plug-and-play ones in the App Store don't; they build compatibility with whatever hip new web service has come out recently, and if it has special features, they add settings. I'm pretty into the idea of a local client that can sync its entire state.
That's actually how I read and reply to things in micro.blog now. I wrote more about it here, and there's another article about it coming out tomorrow! https://aaronparecki.com/2018/03/12/17/building-an-indieweb-reader -
ablaze
https://micro.blog/ablaze
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Apr 20
@aaronpk Well most of the plug-and-play ones in the App Store don't; they build compatibility with whatever hip new web service has come out recently, and if it has special features, they add settings. I'm pretty into the idea of a local client that can sync its entire state.
We've gotta get more apps on board with Microsub! It's like an RSS reader syncing service except you own the service, and you can also reply to things directly from it! -
oh gosh I could never do that. That's why I edit mine so heavily before I publish! I edit out partial words and gaps of silence and other stuff I can't stand. That's also why I can only manage to publish 3-4 minutes at a time!
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This is exactly why I'm bullish on the idea of separating the subscriptions and feed parsing from the interface that you use to browse them! Every RSS reader shouldn't have to also build their own syncing backend!
