busybee fluffy rambles

As I’ve been saying for years, the problem with Twitter isn’t that it’s centralized, but that it’s Twitter.

This post goes into some great details about what that means.

I like when things keep it simple, and I’m always elated to see webmention.js being used in the wild.

This search engine seems pretty cool. So far the catalog appears to only have human-submitted feeds, though. I’ve already submitted a couple of mine, and hopefully more folks get on board with it.

I agree that this is a massive pain point and it’s something I’ve talked about a lot on this blog.

At present, I use a combination of 1 (via isso) and 4 (via webmention.io + webmention.js). The integration on 4 is also helped by using Bridgy and Bridgy Fed to receive webmentions from Mastodon and many of the silos, which strikes an okay balance for me, although it’s far from perfect.

One of the biggest problems with webmention, IMO, is that it doesn’t provide a good story for protected/private responses to protected/private entries. Ticket Auth might eventually provide that, but adoption of that protocol has been slow-going, to say the least, and there’s still open questions about how to actually manage the credentials in an unsupervised flow (especially when using a third-party webmention endpoint). An older WIP called AutoAuth had a much better story for that use case but the protocol was incredibly complicated and implementations never progressed beyond the proof-of-concept stage.

For me, isso as my primary comment system remains the least-bad option of a lot of bad options.

Pretty good overview of the current social media landscape, especially with how it relates to journalism.

Ben Werdmuller posed a question:

If your company gives its employees a space to blog or journal internally, what platform do you use? What do you think of it?

eg: Confluence has blogs; at Medium they have a whole internal version of the site called Hatch; etc.

Back in the day, Amazon had an internal Movable Type site for internal blogging purposes, although it went mostly unused. When I returned for a couple years in 2012 it was still there although even more completely unused. I posted a couple more entries on it that nobody saw as far as I know.

Nowhere else I’ve worked has had formalized internal blogging (although a couple places had public blogging platforms that were mostly used by marketing folks), although a lot of people certainly would treat Slack as their personal blog.