@gr36 👍

there’s a really good blog post somewhere where you map out a mental model for all of this (or even the ERD you’ve constructed). Just having the sort of Mindmap/chart for how you think about these things and relate them would be cool.

@jsonbecker I’m immediately reminded of the post, How does Micro.blog even work? — which is probably a good thing to link to from the Help Contents.

@jsonbecker @SimonWoods Yes, this is something we’ve gotta explain better. I know from questions that very few people understand how all the pieces fit together — the timeline, blogs, external blogs, other networks, cross-posting, etc. — leading to a lot of confusion.

to be honest, I think the Indieweb wiki has failed as a communicator of the idea of POSSE, and maybe this is just my desire for someone working on it in practice to go into detail about it.

I think your Indie Microblogging book is great. I would love for you and others to come up with an elevator speech about IndieWeb principles to explain to people why it is important. I alway feel like I’m just ranting when I talk about it (which of course I am).

@jsonbecker We don’t usually use the term POSSE in Micro.blog either because acronyms are a great way to lose people. The spirit behind it is great.

@bloftin2 Thanks! I’d love to do more there. Maybe we need our own “Why IndieWeb?” page.

yeah– the idea is great, the explanation and execution in many cases is terrible. Thinking about how I wrote up the difference between AcitivityPub v. cross posting the other day– now mix in identity… woof.

Oh boy, that sounds tricky. Thanks for putting in the effort!

@manton I don't know the first thing about anything when it comes to programming something, much less a web service, but it sounds like the best solution here is just a ton of JSON

I know that indieweb.org has their principles on the front page. It is just hard to get people to care.

@jsonbecker yeah, just saying cross-post seems better to me.

I’m building so many abstractions into Smolblog it’s not even funny. And they’re probably insufficient.

There’s so many…

😅

Thumbs up for keyword filtering as well.

@manton if only there was a uniform way to identify resources 🤔

😆 I don't envy you.

@pratik seems about right 😂