looking for silver linings in *waves vaguely at everything* — it sure would be nice if the end result of all of this was a resurgence of indieweb / personal sites and blogs anyways: RSS is working on my site 👀 jason.af/feed.xml

Would love to see self-hosted blogs + RSS resurge. It’s the community / discussion forums (Twitter/HN/Reddit/DevTo to varying degrees) and “bring your audience with you” (newsletters) pieces I hope we can evolve more.

I was just noodling on this. I don’t think I’m the right person to build it, but I wonder what an “RSS feed reader + discussion graph” looks like - subscribe to RSS - “reply” to posts by blogging on your own site with a meta tag - readers use the meta tag to thread discussion

This is basically what we're doing with Webmentions. It's an old post, but surprisingly relevant all of a sudden: aaronparecki.com/2018/06/30/…

Yeah, I love the spirit of WebMentions but the implementation is too high a bar for many (most?) site owners. But maybe a man investment in UX / tooling makes more sense than trying something net new.