blaineNov 12, 2022
"Mastodon sucks because any one of the 5000+ communities can set their own rules and might accidentally deprive people in that community of my witty hot takes for a reason I personally believe to be flippant" isn't the sick burn that the Twitter user with 50k followers thinks it is.
Show threadPelle WessmanNov 12, 2022

@blaine A slight problem with federated micro-Twitters versus fully decentralized IndieWeb setups in a way.

Mastodon instances amplify their users in a different way to actual independent web pages / the IndieWeb.

But still, yeah, you’re right. I’m just sad that eg the WebFinger setup ended up a lot less static site friendly than the original and is much more catered to micro-Twitters than to actually independent sites.

Show threadblaineNov 12, 2022

@voxpelli ❤️

For me, the webfinger stuff was/is just an idea - how can we give people an online name that they control?

(There's some new thinking in this direction that is very exciting, and I think better than any of our previous approaches!)

Show threadPelle WessmanNov 12, 2022

@blaine Yeah, I remember WebFinger itself never really being intended to be a spec in itself, rather just a pattern for how to apply Host Meta rules to usernames

Which new thinking are you referring to? IndieWeb ones? Crypto ones? Browser based ones?

Show threadblaineNov 12, 2022
@voxpelli none of the above! 😅 There were some exciting conversations in Lisbon recently, and I'm working with some folks on a synthesis of a bunch of things that have emerged recently to build a better webfinger (also: we have a new name, lol). More soon!
Show threadPelle Wessman
@blaine Exciting! I hope it will be working well with static sites 😁
Nov 12, 2022 at 3:34pmWeb
Show threadblaineNov 12, 2022
@voxpelli 💯