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# One sanitized and sandboxed Fediverse profile to rule them all
- URL: https://journal.jatan.space/one-sane-fediverse-profile-to-rule-them-all/
- Published: 2026-02-05T15:33:42.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-26T15:49:58.000Z
- Author: Jatan
- Tags: Essays & Musings

After [musing over](https://journal.jatan.space/your-social-web-on-your-blog/) having my social web presence on my own domain thanks to the book [Indie Microblogging](https://book.micro.blog/), I’ve decided to try having such a profile on [the Fediverse](https://journal.jatan.space/welcome-to-the-fediverse/) for a year. But Mastodon and the most of the Fediverse platforms are [too noisy](https://journal.jatan.space/mastodon-and-the-fediverse-is-noisy/) by default, having borrowed likes, boosts & reposts, follower counts, and hashtags from traditional social networks without re-assessing their utility for supposedly non-algorithmic community building. 

I want something that can connect to the Fediverse in a quieter way. My attention first turned to [Ghost](https://ghost.org/), which already powers my flagship [space blog](https://jatan.space/about) as well as [Journal J](https://journal.jatan.space/about). But Ghost’s Fediverse integration is too basic as of now. More importantly, it still has noisy likes, reposts, their notifications, and follower counts & suggestions like a micro-posting network despite being a longform publisher platform. Their Reader section is good, and the only saving grace, but I’m disappointed that Ghost did not build a Fediverse experience that’s longform-focused first and foremost. So I decided to use [Micro.blog](https://micro.blog/) as the foundation of [my Fediverse profile](https://jatan.space/fediverse) because it offers several advantages:

- No support for likes and boosts/reposts, stripping them off the UI completely.
- The notifications area contains just a feed of Mentions and Replies from others, with an added indicator for Direct Messages.
- No follower notifications or counts. I have no clue who follows me unless they engage, which is great.
- No hashtags. In fact, Micro.blog will try to hide the spammy hashtags at the end of posts. Good riddance because I hate hashtags.
- No trending posts or suggested followers section. That Mastodon has these bad network effects is puzzling.
- Posts from [all my blogs](https://jatan.space/blogs/) get auto-shared to my profile thanks to Micro.blog’s feature to pull from RSS feeds of your blogs.
- Relatedly, I don’t like small post editors that limit in feeble amounts what I write and how I think. Which is why it’s great that Micro.blog allows you to automatically show entries from your external blogs in apt ways in the Timeline! So that’s the route I took.
- There’s an option to hide Replies from the Timeline, making it cleaner while still retaining the ability to open any conversation.
- Micro.blog offers RSS feeds of my Timeline, and even of individual profiles, so I can [use RSS](https://journal.jatan.space/why-use-rss/) to follow the Fediverse instead of relying on inferior apps to sort, filter, and search posts. Mastodon does support profile RSS feeds as well but using Micro.blog means I can strip off noisy boosts and reply posts.

These should make the experience clean and focused. Lastly, I used [Bridgy Fed](https://fed.brid.gy/) to enable Bluesky integration, saving me the hassle of having to keep around yet another social media account. 

I actually have [been off social media](https://journal.jatan.space/digital-detox/) since last year. Admittedly though, a Fediverse account on my own domain does makes fundamental sense to try breaking big tech and [social media jails](https://journal.jatan.space/an-internet-without-intent). But it still feels like [breaking the law](https://journal.jatan.space/realizations-about-actually-avoiding-social-media/) when blogs over the web are social by themselves. However, [Webmentions](https://indieweb.org/Webmention) are simply too complicated for me to even understand properly, much less implement and deal with for my blogs. That’s why I’ve decided to try this Fediverse experiment in a sanitized and sandboxed way as a middle ground. Feel free to [follow me on Fedi](https://jatan.space/fediverse), but remember that I won’t see that you followed or be notified of likes and reposts. I only see replies and mentions. 😌

If even after all these guardrails, the Fediverse turns out to be more noise than signal—because, humans—I shall go back to not existing on digital socials.