I just read Sarah Perez’s piece and nothing really adds to micro blog and as she points out - it might be short lived - federation and all that …
I am with @pratik .. ‘blog’ is right there in the name and despite what we all think - not sure most of humanity agrees we need one - so ‘’don’t need’ ‘too hard’ is the block.
But as @dave says @manton has the infrastructure already .. how hard to create another app that only cross posts?