I would love to read an analysis of how well this project satisfies the vision of a decentralized social media architecture. I might not be able to get around to doing such an analysis myself for a while.
Aaron Parecki @aaronpk
20 Feb 2019
Replying to @lsanger @everipedia
You should come check out what we're doing on the #IndieWeb, it's basically exactly this, built with many W3C standards! Here's a writeup about my current social media experience, I stopped using Twitter ages ago: aaronparecki.com/2018/04/20/…
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Here's a diagram explaining the architecture of a typical interaction lifecycle. Each person is using different apps and different software for their websites, a key aspect to a truly decentralized and robust network.
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I’m quite aware that these are not new ideas. Lots of people have been talking about this sort of thing for years. It’s cool IndieWeb has made a start. Pretty exciting! I would like to learn more. Have you worked on my (4) and (5) at all, to make old nets forward-compatible?
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Replying to @lsanger
This way none of my content really lives on twitter since it's all on my site. Twitter is just a channel for me to have conversations with people who don't yet post on their own websites.

Feb 20, 2019 · 4:11 PM UTC

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Replying to @aaronpk
But it does live on Twitter, right? I mean you have copied it there. I would rather not copy my stuff there if I don’t have to. I would prefer Twitter to die a long and painful death. Short would be OK too. You are not giving people any incentive to leave Twitter, are you?
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Maybe this example would help illustrate? Here's our conversation we've been having as far as I see it: aaronparecki.com/replies It's true that I still need a Twitter account for this to work, but if Twitter disappears tomorrow I wouldn't care.
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