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    "type": "entry",
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    "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wgs7q4u4cifplpfpefir6nay/post/3mqmgyfybds2y",
    "content": {
        "text": "Folks who live in Oceania and across Asia have a new #IndieWeb event! Check out events.indieweb.org/2026/08/home... hosted by Naty and covering all things personal and independent web!"
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        "type": "card",
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    "url": "https://xoxo.zone/@artlung/116918862644531474",
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        "html": "<p>Folks who live in Oceania and across Asia have a new <a href=\"https://xoxo.zone/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> event! Check out <a href=\"https://events.indieweb.org/2026/08/homebrew-website-club-asia-pacific-cFR1ZCnVCWvt\"><span>https://</span><span>events.indieweb.org/2026/08/ho</span><span>mebrew-website-club-asia-pacific-cFR1ZCnVCWvt</span></a> hosted by <span class=\"h-card\"><a class=\"u-url\" href=\"https://fosstodon.org/@eclecticpassions\">@<span>eclecticpassions</span></a></span> and covering all things personal and independent web!</p>",
        "text": "Folks who live in Oceania and across Asia have a new #IndieWeb event! Check out https://events.indieweb.org/2026/08/homebrew-website-club-asia-pacific-cFR1ZCnVCWvt hosted by @eclecticpassions and covering all things personal and independent web!"
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    "published": "2026-07-14T14:44:22+00:00",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@PictoPulse356/116918840210510366",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Hoy en el blog: Corea del Sur y su eliminaci\u00f3n del Mundial 2026 \ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddf7\u26bd</p><p>Cayeron en primera fase tras un grupo dif\u00edcil, pero la reacci\u00f3n en Corea ha sido enorme: dimisi\u00f3n del entrenador, cascada de dimisiones en la federaci\u00f3n, protestas en el aeropuerto y declaraciones del propio presidente del pa\u00eds.</p><p>\u00bfExageraci\u00f3n o el pa\u00eds ten\u00eda raz\u00f3n en enfadarse? Doy mi opini\u00f3n (spoiler: creo que se han pasado un poco) \ud83d\ude05</p><p><a href=\"https://goguma.blog/corea-del-sur-mundial-2026/\"><span>https://</span><span>goguma.blog/corea-del-sur-mund</span><span>ial-2026/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Corea\">#<span>Corea</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Mundial2026\">#<span>Mundial2026</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Futbol\">#<span>Futbol</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/smallWeb\">#<span>smallWeb</span></a>  <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a>  <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Hoy en el blog: Corea del Sur y su eliminaci\u00f3n del Mundial 2026 \ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddf7\u26bd\n\nCayeron en primera fase tras un grupo dif\u00edcil, pero la reacci\u00f3n en Corea ha sido enorme: dimisi\u00f3n del entrenador, cascada de dimisiones en la federaci\u00f3n, protestas en el aeropuerto y declaraciones del propio presidente del pa\u00eds.\n\n\u00bfExageraci\u00f3n o el pa\u00eds ten\u00eda raz\u00f3n en enfadarse? Doy mi opini\u00f3n (spoiler: creo que se han pasado un poco) \ud83d\ude05\n\nhttps://goguma.blog/corea-del-sur-mundial-2026/\n\n#Corea #Mundial2026 #Futbol #blog #smallWeb  #indieweb  #blogging"
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    "type": "entry",
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    "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qfwocgrmdpo4zb53yg6dbnjm/post/3mqmeabitjc2s",
    "content": {
        "text": "I added a \"now\" page to my website! This was a thing I saw other indieweb folks doing, and it seemed like a great idea. There's also a \"past\" page linked as an archive of sorts \ud83d\ude0e\n\n#indieweb #blog #now\n\nethanruhl.dev/now"
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    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@ethanruhldev/116918612639669389",
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        "html": "<p>I added a \"now\" page to my website! This was a thing I saw other indieweb folks doing, and it seemed like a great idea. There's also a \"past\" page linked as an archive of sorts \ud83d\ude0e</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/now\">#<span>now</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://ethanruhl.dev/now\"><span>https://</span><span>ethanruhl.dev/now</span><span></span></a></p>",
        "text": "I added a \"now\" page to my website! This was a thing I saw other indieweb folks doing, and it seemed like a great idea. There's also a \"past\" page linked as an archive of sorts \ud83d\ude0e\n\n#indieweb #blog #now\n\nhttps://ethanruhl.dev/now"
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    "published": "2026-07-14T13:40:47+00:00",
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    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@sajal24x7/116918333230969727",
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        "html": "<p>Added webmentions support to the site. This was another one of those things that I had tried to add to the site some time back, but it hadn\u2019t worked then. Now it pulls info from mastodon, bluesky, threads, insta and also webmentions from the web and adds it to the site.</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/web\">#<span>web</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/webmentions\">#<span>webmentions</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Added webmentions support to the site. This was another one of those things that I had tried to add to the site some time back, but it hadn\u2019t worked then. Now it pulls info from mastodon, bluesky, threads, insta and also webmentions from the web and adds it to the site.\n\n#web #webmentions"
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    "url": "https://social.janmontag.de/@janmontag/statuses/01KXG76EWYY1MPNWJ5SJVQJ309",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>\u270d\ufe0f Neuer Blogpost: Mini Antennen</p><p>\u00bb Ich hasse diese kleinen, winzigen Antennenstecker f\u00fcr M2 WLAN Karten. Beim ersten Mal habe ich mir die kleinen Anschl\u00fcsse, die einen spezifischen Namen tragen, sofort verbogen. Diesmal hat es zum Gl\u00fcck geklappt. Der Empfang von WLAN und Bluetooth ist sehr gut. \u00ab</p><p>Weiterlesen: <a href=\"https://janmontag.de/mini-antennen\">https://janmontag.de/mini-antennen</a></p><p><a href=\"https://social.janmontag.de/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.janmontag.de/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "\u270d\ufe0f Neuer Blogpost: Mini Antennen\n\n\u00bb Ich hasse diese kleinen, winzigen Antennenstecker f\u00fcr M2 WLAN Karten. Beim ersten Mal habe ich mir die kleinen Anschl\u00fcsse, die einen spezifischen Namen tragen, sofort verbogen. Diesmal hat es zum Gl\u00fcck geklappt. Der Empfang von WLAN und Bluetooth ist sehr gut. \u00ab\n\nWeiterlesen: https://janmontag.de/mini-antennen\n\n#blog #indieweb"
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    "published": "2026-07-14T11:46:32+00:00",
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    "_source": "8007",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
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        "photo": null
    },
    "url": "https://social.janmontag.de/@janmontag/statuses/01KXG5YHKS97R1XSFDX3TK2VT1",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Hi, na \ud83d\ude0f?: Autopost?</p><p><a href=\"https://janmontag.de/autopost\">https://janmontag.de/autopost</a> <a href=\"https://social.janmontag.de/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://social.janmontag.de/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Hi, na \ud83d\ude0f?: Autopost?\n\nhttps://janmontag.de/autopost #blog #indieweb"
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    "published": "2026-07-14T11:24:44+00:00",
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    "_source": "8007",
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    "author": {
        "name": "#indieauth",
        "url": "https://mastodon.social/tags/indieauth",
        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://tech.lgbt/@darkwiiplayer/116917475924805595",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I really want to like <a href=\"https://tech.lgbt/tags/indieauth\">#<span>indieauth</span></a> but the idea of having to parse a remote HTML document just seems utterly deranged.</p>",
        "text": "I really want to like #indieauth but the idea of having to parse a remote HTML document just seems utterly deranged."
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    "published": "2026-07-14T08:51:42+00:00",
    "post-type": "note",
    "_id": "48909844",
    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
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        "photo": null
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    "url": "https://techbacon.social/@pixelbud/116915936954790769",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Yes. The maker hour has arrived. Quiet\u2026 peaceful\u2026 will stay up until 2am and regret it tomorrow morning but worth it \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https://techbacon.social/tags/dev\">#<span>dev</span></a> <a href=\"https://techbacon.social/tags/makers\">#<span>makers</span></a> <a href=\"https://techbacon.social/tags/makersgonnamake\">#<span>makersgonnamake</span></a> <a href=\"https://techbacon.social/tags/makershour\">#<span>makershour</span></a> <a href=\"https://techbacon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Yes. The maker hour has arrived. Quiet\u2026 peaceful\u2026 will stay up until 2am and regret it tomorrow morning but worth it \ud83d\ude02 #dev #makers #makersgonnamake #makershour #indieweb"
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    "published": "2026-07-14T02:20:20+00:00",
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    "url": "https://pkm.social/@ike/116915800637646273",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>I've been enjoying reading article found on Bubbles.Town - its a bit of the hacker news model of upvoting but for indie-web blogs written by real people - none of which I've seen have a monetary incentive, paywall, pop-up, or other enshittified nonsense. </p><p>Id love to see more people voting and commenting on articles, and you can connect your existing fediverse account - you don't need to create a new one or anything! </p><p><a href=\"https://bubbles.town/\"><span>https://</span><span>bubbles.town/</span><span></span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://pkm.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://pkm.social/tags/HackerNews\">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href=\"https://pkm.social/tags/Enshittification\">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> <a href=\"https://pkm.social/tags/Reddit\">#<span>Reddit</span></a></p>",
        "text": "I've been enjoying reading article found on Bubbles.Town - its a bit of the hacker news model of upvoting but for indie-web blogs written by real people - none of which I've seen have a monetary incentive, paywall, pop-up, or other enshittified nonsense. \n\nId love to see more people voting and commenting on articles, and you can connect your existing fediverse account - you don't need to create a new one or anything! \n\nhttps://bubbles.town/\n\n#IndieWeb #HackerNews #Enshittification #Reddit"
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    "_source": "8007",
    "_is_read": false
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2026-07-14T01:30:53.614Z",
    "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3o5i2ejzank7lrm57s6v44yk/post/3mql2obf6j62s",
    "content": {
        "text": "Hello from IndieWeb! POSSE is so much fun"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "c-49.bsky.social",
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{
    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2026-07-14T00:22:57.181Z",
    "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:atoq6i2msr6nxm2ct6ywvnn3/post/3mqkwuqudcs2s",
    "content": {
        "text": "i don't really understand what's happened, all i did was: register a domain, create an A record pointing to neocities, reconfigure neocities with the new domain... and suddenly my entire site has redirected to shens.world wtf?\n\n#indieweb #neocities"
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    "author": {
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    "_id": "48906935",
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    "type": "entry",
    "author": {
        "name": "#indieweb",
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    "url": "https://social.coop/@hollie/116914844736197321",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Question about <a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/PersonalWebsites\">#<span>PersonalWebsites</span></a> and <a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/Indieweb\">#<span>Indieweb</span></a> design, maybe should tag <a href=\"https://social.coop/tags/webdev\">#<span>webdev</span></a> too....</p><p>I want to eventually make many small galleries on my static site. I just made this one as a start: </p><p>satellite.eilloh.net/ships</p><p>I'm trying to keep the code very simple, since I'm doing all this by hand. This page I made seems to work well for me, but I'm curious whether it's bad form to not use thumbnails? I'd rather not, if I don't have to, as that's more to do and more to clutter up my files. Is it okay to just use CSS to make the huge photos small? Does the answer to this question change depending on the number of photos I want to cram into one page?</p>",
        "text": "Question about #PersonalWebsites and #Indieweb design, maybe should tag #webdev too....\n\nI want to eventually make many small galleries on my static site. I just made this one as a start: \n\nsatellite.eilloh.net/ships\n\nI'm trying to keep the code very simple, since I'm doing all this by hand. This page I made seems to work well for me, but I'm curious whether it's bad form to not use thumbnails? I'd rather not, if I don't have to, as that's more to do and more to clutter up my files. Is it okay to just use CSS to make the huge photos small? Does the answer to this question change depending on the number of photos I want to cram into one page?"
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    "published": "2026-07-13T21:42:34+00:00",
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2026-07-13T20:53:41.800Z",
    "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ou5hypbcklrnymgnovlscdvy/post/3mqkl6l4j2k2m",
    "content": {
        "text": "New Side Quests to read on TinyHammer! This time,\nI\u2019ve got some indies that have been keeping me busy!\n\nSorry for the gap between posts. I\u2019ve had a lot of lesson planning to do!\n\nLet me know if either deserves a full review! :)\n\n#Gaming #IndieGames #IndieWeb\n\ntinyhammer.neocities.org/sidequests"
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    "type": "entry",
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    "url": "https://woof.tech/@Finix/116914458043196569",
    "content": {
        "html": "<p>Glivy page 100 !<br /><a href=\"https://glivy.webcomic.ws/comics/100/\"><span>https://</span><span>glivy.webcomic.ws/comics/100/</span><span></span></a></p><p>Can you believe it? (I am actually lying to you of course there's more than 100 pages since some entries have multiple pages or long pages that are worth like 2\u20133, but whatever. 100 entries is still a lot!)</p><p>I never did think I'd get this far, and the best part is now I get to draw the gang again (except there's a lot more of them now).</p><p>As usual, this came out on Saturday, so do keep an eye out for this weekly schedule.</p><p><a href=\"https://woof.tech/tags/comic\">#<span>comic</span></a> <a href=\"https://woof.tech/tags/art\">#<span>art</span></a> <a href=\"https://woof.tech/tags/characterDesign\">#<span>characterDesign</span></a> <a href=\"https://woof.tech/tags/originalCharacter\">#<span>originalCharacter</span></a> <a href=\"https://woof.tech/tags/krita\">#<span>krita</span></a> <a href=\"https://woof.tech/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://woof.tech/tags/indiecomics\">#<span>indiecomics</span></a> <a href=\"https://woof.tech/tags/furry\">#<span>furry</span></a> <a href=\"https://woof.tech/tags/oc\">#<span>oc</span></a> <a href=\"https://woof.tech/tags/furryart\">#<span>furryart</span></a> <a href=\"https://woof.tech/tags/lore\">#<span>lore</span></a></p>",
        "text": "Glivy page 100 !\nhttps://glivy.webcomic.ws/comics/100/\n\nCan you believe it? (I am actually lying to you of course there's more than 100 pages since some entries have multiple pages or long pages that are worth like 2\u20133, but whatever. 100 entries is still a lot!)\n\nI never did think I'd get this far, and the best part is now I get to draw the gang again (except there's a lot more of them now).\n\nAs usual, this came out on Saturday, so do keep an eye out for this weekly schedule.\n\n#comic #art #characterDesign #originalCharacter #krita #indieweb #indiecomics #furry #oc #furryart #lore"
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    "type": "entry",
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    "url": "https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:azs6yrgu4s6fkzftzwk3ncem/post/3mqkigb3rfk25",
    "content": {
        "text": "Glivy page 100 !\nglivy.webcomic.ws/comics/100/\n\nCan you believe it you guys ?\n\nAs usual, this came out on Saturday, so do keep an eye out for this weekly schedule.\n\n#comic #art #characterDesign #originalCharacter #krita #indieweb #indiecomics #furry #oc #furryart #lore"
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    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@lzon/116914334085554629",
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        "html": "<p>The Algoma Programming Language</p><p>Here\u2019s the big project that I\u2019ve been working on for the past few months.<br /><a href=\"https://lzon.ca/posts/algoma/algoma-intro/\"><span>https://</span><span>lzon.ca/posts/algoma/algoma-in</span><span>tro/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/PersonalWeb\">#<span>PersonalWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Blog\">#<span>Blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/Programming\">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/ProgrammingLanguages\">#<span>ProgrammingLanguages</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/CompilerDesign\">#<span>CompilerDesign</span></a></p>",
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Reevaluating the Twitter / X API

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    "author": {
        "name": "Manton Reece",
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    "url": "https://www.manton.org/2026/07/13/reevaluating-the-twitter-x-api.html",
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        "html": "<p>A month ago <a href=\"https://www.manton.org/2026/05/18/in-i-started-winding-down.html\">I wondered out loud</a> if it was time to add Twitter cross-posting back to Micro.blog. After a lot of thought and feedback from users, I think yes. The goal has always been to help people publish on their own domain first, regardless of where they also choose to share their posts.</p>\n<p>While I hoped X would fade away, it hasn\u2019t, and from an IndieWeb perspective there isn\u2019t a major difference between many of the closed silos: X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Threads. Once you move beyond open protocols, every major social platform asks users to trust how it uses their data and the decisions of the company\u2019s leadership.</p>\n<p>The fediverse support in Threads hasn\u2019t panned out the way we had hoped either. I don\u2019t think Meta\u2019s heart is in it. Their posting API is still private and requires jumping through hoops for approval. Yet we still support it. The web is better off with even partial ActivityPub support in Threads, and connecting to Threads via <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/POSSE\">POSSE</a>, rather than nothing.</p>\n<p>I\u2019m under no illusion that X is going to open their API. They have recently added MCP, which is interesting, but also not very relevant to Micro.blog.</p>\n<p>In reevaluating support for X, there are two competing principles:</p>\n<ul><li>We support open APIs and protocols, so why give attention to a closed silo? X\u2019s leadership is also erratic and divisive.</li>\n<li>We want more people to start posting to their own blog. Making it easier to cross-post from blog to closed silo actually expands indie blogging.</li>\n</ul><p>If there\u2019s a conflict in principles, we should do what helps people blog. We can\u2019t control whether X will succeed or fail, just as the principled statement I made when I quit Twitter in 2012 made little difference. Micro.blog doesn\u2019t \u201csupport\u201d Elon Musk any more than we support Mark Zuckerberg. We support <em>users</em> who want to blog and reach an audience on other platforms.</p>\n<p>Finally, there is the cost. X\u2019s API is no longer free. It is more affordable now, though, and reasonable for us to support with a Micro.blog Premium $10 subscription. It won\u2019t be available at the standard $5 subscription.</p>\n<p>I\u2019m planning to re-enable X support this week. I don\u2019t love doing it, but on balance it seems right to make people\u2019s blogs even more useful.</p>",
        "text": "A month ago I wondered out loud if it was time to add Twitter cross-posting back to Micro.blog. After a lot of thought and feedback from users, I think yes. The goal has always been to help people publish on their own domain first, regardless of where they also choose to share their posts.\nWhile I hoped X would fade away, it hasn\u2019t, and from an IndieWeb perspective there isn\u2019t a major difference between many of the closed silos: X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Threads. Once you move beyond open protocols, every major social platform asks users to trust how it uses their data and the decisions of the company\u2019s leadership.\nThe fediverse support in Threads hasn\u2019t panned out the way we had hoped either. I don\u2019t think Meta\u2019s heart is in it. Their posting API is still private and requires jumping through hoops for approval. Yet we still support it. The web is better off with even partial ActivityPub support in Threads, and connecting to Threads via POSSE, rather than nothing.\nI\u2019m under no illusion that X is going to open their API. They have recently added MCP, which is interesting, but also not very relevant to Micro.blog.\nIn reevaluating support for X, there are two competing principles:\nWe support open APIs and protocols, so why give attention to a closed silo? X\u2019s leadership is also erratic and divisive.\nWe want more people to start posting to their own blog. Making it easier to cross-post from blog to closed silo actually expands indie blogging.\nIf there\u2019s a conflict in principles, we should do what helps people blog. We can\u2019t control whether X will succeed or fail, just as the principled statement I made when I quit Twitter in 2012 made little difference. Micro.blog doesn\u2019t \u201csupport\u201d Elon Musk any more than we support Mark Zuckerberg. We support users who want to blog and reach an audience on other platforms.\nFinally, there is the cost. X\u2019s API is no longer free. It is more affordable now, though, and reasonable for us to support with a Micro.blog Premium $10 subscription. It won\u2019t be available at the standard $5 subscription.\nI\u2019m planning to re-enable X support this week. I don\u2019t love doing it, but on balance it seems right to make people\u2019s blogs even more useful."
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