[CarelessExpert]

For folks interested in this space, there's a few other resources of which I'm a fan.

First, there's Micro.blog (https://micro.blog/). They can host a blog for you, or you can publish to their service for free using your own blog by pointing Micro.blog at your RSS feed (I do the latter). Think blogging but with a social element, facilitating both interaction and content discovery.

Second, there's the IndieWeb movement more broadly (https://indieweb.org/), which advocates for a whole ecosystem of distributed, open technologies for enriching the blogging ecosystem and encouraging interoperability.

Third, believe it or not, webrings live on! The indiewebring (https://indieweb.org/indiewebring), for example, is a fun way to find additional bloggers out there.

As you can tell, I'm a fan of blogging and the IndieWeb movement... :)

[benhurmarcel]

Is there varied content on micro.blog? The concept is nice (simple social network using RSS) but I’ve been looking at the “discover” page a few times and the content really doesn’t seem interesting, although the vibe is polite and calm.

[CarelessExpert]

So, couple things about the Discover page.

First, it's categorized. The platform uses emoji instead of hashtags and the Discover page has a set of defaults, so clicking on the dropdown at the top of the page will give you some other options. You could also try a keyword search to find posts related to topics you're interested in, and then see if you want to follow those people.

That being said, the second thing to know about the Discover page is that it's hand curated, and I'll be the first to admit that there's a pretty clear bias in the kinds of posts that bubble up. :) For example, I follow @adamcomputer (https://micro.blog/adamcomputer), because, as you can probably guess, I'm very much a nerd. But I don't know that I've ever seen any of his stuff land in the Discover feed. So instead, I sometimes find interesting people and look at who they're following and go from there.

Now, I still very much enjoy browsing the Discovery feeds! But I'll be the first to admit discoverability is, at least in my opinion, still a challenge on the service.

[OhHiMarkos]

These are amazing. These approaches make writing blogs very tempting. Thanks for sharing

[lambic]

Indieweb uses Slack? That's... confusing.

[chipotle_coyote]

"Indieweb uses Slack" in the sense that, yes, there is an Indieweb Slack team. There are probably also people who contribute to the Indieweb who use Twitter and Facebook and other fully proprietary systems, as well as many who use Micro.blog, which is built using established open standards but does not make its server open source.

Don't be the guy who strokes his chin and says "You say you're a vegan, yet you have a leather wallet. Interesting."

[nvrspyx]

They use a bridge between IRC, Matrix, and Slack.