Neat feature from Micro.blog. Here is Manton Reece, from his personal blog, on the new feature:
You can now follow blogs in the Micro.blog timeline, even if the blogger hasn’t yet registered on Micro.blog.
Manton describes this feature as another type of “username”. I understand why he’s framing it that way but I’m unsure if it is the best way to describe it. A blog’s content being syndicated through Micro.blog, unwitting of the owner, isn’t a username. In fact, any interaction with those posts by the Micro.blog community may very well go wholly unnoticed by the owner of the site unless their site supports Webmentions. So these are hardly Micro.blog users.
Be that as it is, I am struggling myself with a better way to fully describe the different ways in which someone can use Micro.blog.
At current, here they are:
- you can host your blog on Micro.blog at your own domain name
- you can sign up to Micro.blog and post there using their domain name
- you can sign up and syndicate your blog to an account (like I do)
- with any account: