I’ve hosted my blog, such as it is, many places. It started life on Movable Type (though nothing survives), moved to Tumblr, then WordPress, and now Micro.blog.
@manton deserves a lot of kudos for how simple, friendly, and interoperable Micro.blog is, culturally and technically.
@ryanbooker Micro.blog being culturally interoperable with the Web at large is such a good way to put it.
@ryanbooker @manton So so true. There is a deep emotional intelligence to this whole thing that Manton and team have that give us as a community a really healthy foundation to build on.
@camacho @ryanbooker @manton @moonmehta This cultural interoperability as was so eloquently put, is I think even more impressive than the technical side of things. The linking of different communities on the web is powerful in its apparent simplicity.
@ryanbooker I still miss Movable Type! It was amazing! I actually found an old zip with it and installed on a server, but it was too much of a hassle for a small blog nowadays. Micro.blog is way nicer!
@ryanbooker I was handcoding my website before the year 2000, because that was the only way to do it back then. It was not easy.
Still, there has been a huge development since then, and the end is not in sight. I'm curious what small teams of ex third-party Twitter developers, like the Iconfactory can come up with. Mastodon is certainly not the only solution for a modern open web platform. Time to rethink and reinvent.
@renevanbelzen I’m curious too. Craig has alluded to working on something a few times and the closing thoughts of his post about it all are intriguing.