David Pierce at The Verge: The poster’s guide to the internet of the future:
The idea is that you, the poster, should post on a website that you own. Not an app that can go away and take all your posts with it, not a platform with ever-shifting rules and algorithms. Your website.
The podcast episode in The Vergecast has even more quotes from me, Tantek Çelik, Cory Doctorow, Mike McCue, and Matt Mullenweg. I love how well this captures the foundation for POSSE and where the web is headed.
@manton Just listened to this episode! I set up my blog this weekend after searching for a solution like this for a while. As they were discussing the POSSE model I was thinking to myself they would use micro.blog as the example, then they did! Cool stuff 😁
@manton Makes a lot of sense and it’s Twitter’s problem that apps can no longer post to it.
Seeing all this made me convinced hosting my own journal on Micro.blog was the best option.
@manton Oh wow, don’t know how I went through a whole work day and skipped over this. Vergecast has been on fire lately with their topics. Last week they talked about Beeper and trying to corral and federate all the instant messaging apps by using Matrix
@manton this whole episode does a good job of proving how right your stance is on including multiple syndication options. The future of the social web belongs to services like micro.blog
@manton After years of keeping LinkedIn clean of most of my weirdness, the recent POSSE stuff convinced me to add that as a place to share even my weirdness.
@briandigital Sometimes it’s hard to tell right away, but I think these kind of articles always help. Gets more people thinking about it, even if they might not sign up immediately.
@manton ... I like this idea, and WordPress's new blog integration with Mastodon is a good start. It's not perfect, but I can see the benefits.
