@Denny
Thanks! I’ll pose the same question I gave in another thread:

There’s an interesting spin in between all this with us here on micro.blog: We’re kind of our own deal here. If basing it on technologies, I believe Webmentions and RSS is at the heart of what makes this place tick. But we also speak ActivityPub and ATProto (and a few more) thanks to bridging. Does that mean we also should be sounding the alarm anytime another ship comes along that has “strangers that speak the same languages” aboard because of the unknown threat or just welcome them and ourselves into the new fold?

I’m really curious as to what most micro.bloggers think about all the dust-ups surrounding impending federation of disparate social media networks and some of the extreme “hometeam hooligan” protectionism behaviors seen in some spots. What’s a good way to foster good discussions about both the technology aspects as well as the developed communities within an instance/site while trying to advocate for federation?

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[↩REPLIED:] Denny Henke 19 FEB 2024 13:51 EST https://micro.blog/Denny/32030646
@starrwulfe Yeah, it’s interesting and I think for many, including myself, still a bit confusing! Micro.blog is kind of it’s own deal with it’s own semi-silo. Our blogs are open via RSS but I think there are still questions/confusions about commenting. I had a friend (not on micro.blog) ask how he could comment on my blog. I could not easily explain to him how to do so. Later he joined Mastodon and he’s now on BlueSky. I let him know that he could comment via Mastodon. He was a bit confused at first because I have a stand-alone Mastodon account so he was just interacting to that account.

Since seeing your recent posts about web mentions along with those by @khurtwilliams I’m aware now that there is potential for cross posting comments via the micro.blog timeline to WordPress blogs but that seems even more confused/difficult and unreliable? I think Khurt has been struggling to get it working.

As for your specific question about federating, with the big ships like Blue Sky and Threads, I like the open, welcome approach.