As someone who is really into the IndieWeb movement and content ownership, I host my own website but my Microcast is hosted in Micro.blog. To me, I still feel safe with my Microcast being on Micro.blog because the entire platform is built on Jekyll. I can sync the content of my entire Microcast website to GitHub and walk away with all of my files and pages, put them on another server and point my domain name at it. With that, I could successfully leave Micro.blog with all of my content very easily compared to any other hosted service. For some people it is too hard or not worth self-Hosting, but data portability is key to content ownership and that’s what Micro.blog provides in my opinion.
Hey Jeena, Because of the way Micro.blog is architected, it treats original posts and replies differently. It should be sending webmentions for original posts, but it doesn’t currently send webmentions to posts that are in reply to other posts. I think there also might be a potential issue if you haven’t verified your domain. Besides that, it should work.
I had a look into my logs and it looks like #Micro.blog doesn't send any webmentions to my site when someone comments, which is a pity, because when I trigger it manually, their comment shows up nicely on my website.
Are any #indieweb folks heading to #ghc2018 this year? If there's any interest, I'd love to have an ad-hoc homebrew website club!
indieweb ghc ghc2018 tech travel grad-schoolThis is something I struggle to articulate to friends who are suffering because they feel tied to silos like Facebook and Twitter:
What self-publishing does is provide me a choice, which makes me feel good. I feel like I can step away from platforms at will and I don’t feel as shackled as I have done previously.