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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Yeah basically 4 and 5 are covered by the idea of POSSE indieweb.org/POSSE but it works the opposite direction. I'm writing this on my website, and it gets automatically copied to Twitter. I also am reading your replies in Monocle, my reader app.
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Suppose I don’t want to copy anything to Twitter, but I want to let people who are on Twitter read my microposts on Twitter. They’d need a browser plug-in to do that. This way, we help them seek beyond that ecosystem and enter a broader, encompassing network.
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Replying to @lsanger
It would actually solve the issue with Facebook since they disabled their API and I can't post to it anymore. It'd be fun if my Facebook friends could still see my stuff! I'm just not willing to post there manually.

Feb 20, 2019 · 4:17 PM UTC

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Replying to @aaronpk
Yep and if they cause too much trouble with changing classes and crap, which I think they do, you can always just put the related off-site content in its own div (or iframe).
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See Greasemonkey