“I rarely just tweet something, unless it’s truly ephemeral (or a reply, obviously). I prefer to blog first and let Twitter get a copy. This is part of owning my own content.” — Brent Simmons on his blogging setup
This is going to seem like a joke but it's not: in ~1978, there was a minor crisis around connecting the various networks (ARPA, CYCLADES, etc) into an "inter-network environment", aka the internet. Some of the discussions seems similar to our discussion of interoperability between content types in ActivityPub networks. I think it would behoove fediverse nerds to read up on this stuff.
1978 paper summarizing the issue (PDF): https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien20.pdf
IndieWeb is more and more starting to feel like a genuine social network for me. It’s happening slowly, but I’m building up a list of people that I follow in my reader, and I get the odd interaction back here and there. And it’s not all just inside chat about IndieWeb plumbing. Good stuff!
(Not saying it wasn’t already a social network for other people – this is just my own experience. If I’d been blogging to my own site for 20 years, or joined micro.blog, I’m sure I’d be there already!)
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so wait, you're trying to sell me on a social media site that's like mastodon, but one big instance so everyone can see and interact with everyone else's content? sounds like a moderation nightmare. what happens if the admins have drama? you can't just leave and go somewhere nicer
wait, server costs are paid for by ads? seriously? why would i want ads in the middle of my timeline?
and the timeline isn't even chronological, so i have no clue what's actually going on at any point? forget it, i'm out