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If you’re familiar with OAuth, this introduction to IndieAuth walks through the process of how auth for the open web works. Really happy that Micro.blog supports this now.

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Great article by Felix Salmon on Wired last month about Twitter, found via Buzz Andersen’s blog:

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\n Twitter is becoming increasingly concentrated on a tiny core of power users. It\u2019s less and less a distributed mode of many-to-many communication, and more and more a broadcasting hub for the elite\u2014a highly unequal place where their least-considered, Ambien-addled opinions get amplified to a global audience of millions.\n

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When Micro.blog launched, not showing follower counts at all seemed like a big risk. Now I think it’s recognized as a great feature. If we want an inclusive, welcoming community, the UI should encourage that by presenting everyone as equals.

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We posted a new episode of Core Intuition this week with a summary of my time at IndieWeb Summit and more.

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Updated the Discover list with 2 new emoji: \ud83c\udf55 and \ud83d\uddfa\ufe0f. Still a few more I’d like to add soon. Happy microblogging!

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Lots of little road trips over the last couple months and coming up this month. Feel like we’ve covered more miles around Texas than usual. \ud83d\uddfa\ufe0f

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Anticipating some new in-progress features, I took some time this week to tweak the registration page and Account \u2192 Edit Feeds. Need to keep iterating on these to minimize confusion for new people joining Micro.blog.

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Here’s a set of actions and workflows from @craigmcclellan for posting images and audio files to Micro.blog via Drafts and Workflow. Great for anyone who wants to host a photo blog or podcast on Micro.blog.

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Iconfactory has had to make some difficult choices for the latest update to Twitterrific. From the release history:

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\n In the coming months, Twitter plans to discontinue the underlying services that we need to provide both push notifications and live streaming. As a result, we did not feel it was right to keep selling the push notification in-app purchase since we will soon be forced to shut it down. To that end, we’ve consolidated our in-app purchases to a single “Enhanced” option which eliminates ads and unlocks Google Translate.\n

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More from their blog post:

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\n We sincerely wish Twitter would have offered third party developers a better way forward for our customers. Apps like Twitterrific helped build Twitter\u2019s brand and expand its user base. We even contributed to its lexicon and feature sets (Tweet tweet!) Twitter\u2019s priorities over the last several years, however, have shifted away from end users and toward brands and big companies. We have no choice but to adapt as best we can.\n

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I post tweet-like short posts to my own blog first and then let Micro.blog send a copy to Twitter, so I don’t use Twitter very often except to check replies a few times a day. Looks like Iconfactory is making this as smooth a transition as possible for existing customers. If you were wondering if Twitter’s API changes were ever really going to affect Twitter users, this release of Twitterrific is your answer.

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County Line BBQ to wrap up the day. Hope y\u2019all had a nice July 4th. \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8

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Earlier this week I wrote about making Micro.blog an IndieAuth provider. This allows anyone with a Micro.blog-hosted blog to sign in to IndieWeb-compatible apps. For example, using OwnYourGram to automatically copy Instagram photos to your own blog on Micro.blog.

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I’ve now expanded this support to let anyone use Micro.blog to authorize an app even if your blog is hosted outside of Micro.blog. If you host somewhere else, you’ll still be responsible for setting up posting, but having basic IndieAuth support can be useful if you want to connect your blog to tools that don’t need to post, like IndieWeb Ring or the IndieWeb.org wiki.

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There are instructions on this Micro.blog help page for adding the appropriate HTML tags to your site.

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