Aaron Parecki

"Let’s pretend that instead of building a single company, a group of engineers got together and built an ecosystem. Like email, but taking in the lessons we’ve learnt, the new communication modes we’ve stumbled across, in the past decades. Multiple servers and services compete and coordinate in equal measure, advancing the whole and being pushed to their limits. Some servers compete on individual privacy, others compete by exchanging privacy for enriched services. Maybe some services even have Moments, who knows. Space for everyone."

"The basic idea is, if you look at your own community with the eyes of an outsider, look at it from the perspective of a specific group of people you'd like to recruit, what do you think might discourage them or make them uncomfortable? Those are what we'll call "weirdnesses." And you get to decide, your community gets to decide, which weirdnesses are essential, and which ones, in Betsy Leondar-Wright's words, are inessential, meaning you should offer a workaround for them, or even try to change them."

This could be a way to enable some simple #indieweb interactions in an iOS client

"Yay for @indiewebcamp -- I haven't fiddled that much in my site's innards for a very long time, and it feels good. :-)"

"TMSU was born out of frustration with the hierarchical nature of filesystems"