nicky flowers

It's nice to see more people experimenting with RSS-only blogging. I remember R Stevens (of Diesel Sweeties) had an RSS-only blog for a while ages ago, although I don't know if he's still running it.

One of the big ideas behind Atom was that it would also be a standalone social media format rather than just being "RSS but nerdy," but that also never quite went anywhere, unfortunately.

yeah it's exciting to shoot out a message on a feed i control fully! and not have to fuss with html/css, which can be fun but sometimes not so much. it still can't replace the perfect Chost, with its comments section. maybe i'll just put my email at the end of my rosts

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fluffy @fluffy9/13/2024, 4:18 AM

Some of the fundamental design to Atom was that entries could reference other entries.

But also if you do want replies and such, IndieWeb's webmention protocol is pretty okay. Implementing it isn't too difficult if you're willing to pull in some client-side javascript and make use of an externally-hosted endpoint, but it still requires that people respond using websites that also speak webmention.

Comment Parade is a nice anonymous post-a-comment-as-webmention service which hasn't been abused too badly so far although that's mostly due to its obscurity and the lack of webmention as a known target for trolling. I assume that the moment it gets popular it starts to get abused just like everything else.

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