Ian's Thing

I think it’s all working now. I am posting on my Mac from the Micro. blog page, and it’s appearing on the blog and on Bluesky. I shall have to try it with the Mac app, and also with iOS and iPadOS. I think for those versions, I shall take a walk to the pub for some refreshment. This has been thirsty work!

I’m still having issues getting these posts to cross-post to Bluesky, for some reason.

I was trying to set up my own domain with Micro. blog, and also connect it to Bluesky. I kept getting security warnings, and no site. It’s probably just down to me wanting everything to work almost immediately. I’ve been around long enough to know it takes time for DNS to propagate fully, and sometimes, even when it appears to have done so, it can ‘drop out’ again for a while until it’s fully settled. That can take up to 48 hours, although these days, it’s usually much quicker.

I’ve set up Bluesky with one of my own domains. I’ve also attempted to set up cross-posting from that domain to Bluesky and Micro. blog. I’m typing this into Micro. blog to see where it propagates to