VCP 4 - Building a central hub to help you share your thoughts and ideas (with: Manton Reece)

Manton Reece, the creator of Micro.blog, talks about the journey that led him to build a platform that enables users to apply the IndieWeb principle of first posting on their own blog, and then strategically cross-posting or sharing links on social media. Obviously, topics such as ActivityPub, the AT protocol, and the Fediverse in general were also discussed. I hope you enjoy listening to this conversation as much as I enjoyed producing this episode.

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When someone asks me what the hardest part of my creator job is, I tell them right away: “titles”. Article titles and video titles. I’m so bad at it. And videos have two titles. The written version and the thumbnail.


Early today, I had a wonderful conversation with @manton@manton.org about #Microblog, #IndieWeb, and #ActivityPub. It will be released in a couple of days as episode 4 of my podcast, as well as a video on my YouTube channel.


✅ It looks like Bending Spoons goal is to check all the boxes on the long wishlist #Evernote users have created over the years. We’ll soon be able to pin one or more notes.: youtu.be/LunytWKXB…


I usually create an email for each service I subscribe to. That’s how I know that the fake #McAFee invoices I’ve been getting are from an address I used to create a #MyFitnessPal account back in 2015. You are free to use this information however you wish 😉


When I began my Micro.blog journey, I was convinced that cross-posting was a bad idea. I’m thrilled to say that some of the features I’ve been trying and the evolution of the platform are making me change my mind. More on that soon. For now, I hope you have a lovely week.


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I have decided to start the podcast, but we have to talk about Google being Google. There is a situation with Google Music and YouTube that I still don’t know how to deal with.

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