Free Video Tutorial: Micro.blog - Apple Mac, iPad & iPhone Tutorials from ScreenCastsOnline

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Micro.blog is an independent and unique microblog and podcasting community created with privacy and safety in mind. It supports IndieWeb standards and gives you several options to host your blog and other content while making sure you keep control of it.

Rosemary gives you a tour of the various features that make Micro.blog a unique alternative to other social platforms and introduces you to some apps for Mac and iOS so you can get a native experience on your devices.

Update - As usual, we create our screencasts completely independently from the developers and as luck would have it, a couple of days before publication, Micro.blog launched a new component that we couldn't include in our original tutorial - Micro.blog for Teams.

This new feature doesn't change the core functionality of the service so the tutorial is still 100% accurate, but if you do want to create multi-user blogs for companies, families, schools, etc, you can now do so. So check out the screencast for the core functionality of Micro.blog, and if multi-user access is something that you might want to implement, checkout the developers blog post here for more information.

The full tutorial covers

  • Micro.blog Website
  • Create an Account
  • Posting
  • Discover
  • Timeline
  • Favorites
  • Mentions
  • Account & Profile Information
  • Feeds & Cross-posting
  • Post History
  • Pages
  • Creating a New Page
  • Uploads
  • Categories
  • Design
  • Internet Archive
  • New Post Options
  • Post Types in the Timeline
  • Micro.blog Compatible Apps
  • Tagmoji
  • Menus on the Mac
  • Accessing help.micro.blog
  • iPhone App
  • Sunlit for iOS
  • Using Sunlit Filters
  • Notifications on iOS

App Store Links:

Micro.blog - iOS App Store

Sunlit - iOS App Store

Show Links:

Micro.blog - Website

Manton Reece - Manton on micro.blog

Jean MacDonald - Jean on micro.blog

Johnathon Hays - Johnathon on micro.blog

Custom Themes - Micro.blog

Help Site - Micro.blog

Micro.blog Slack channel - Slack

Domain Names - Micro.blog

Internet Archive - Manton Reece

Tagmoji - Micro.blog

Export Instagram Archive - Instagram

Self Hosting Your Own Micro.Blog - micro.blog

Video Tutorial Comments

(3 comments posted)

Kurt Werstein

@rosemaryorchard - At 15.40, you delete a post from Micro.blog that was originally cross-posted to Mastodon, as well. Should I assume that this deletion process is deleting the post only from Micro.blog or is it deleting the post from Mastodon, as well?

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Rosemary Orchard

Hi Kurt,
If you're using the cross posting feature then it won't delete a post sent to another network. It only deletes the micro.blog copy. Sorry this wasn't clear!

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Rosemary Orchard

Hi Kurt,
If you're using the cross posting feature then it won't delete a post sent to another network. It only deletes the micro.blog copy. Sorry this wasn't clear!

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