I have been blogging a long time, and can tinker a bit with code (like a home cook). I want my site to be the center of how I read and write the web. Its purpose is to create conversations with others, who write in their own spaces on the web.
This focus is exactly why I started blogging some 21+ years ago and why I'm feeling the ache of less frequent postings now.
Microformats2 so that computers know how to interpret our blogposts,
Sometimes I wonder if it has to be this complicated. mf2 is neat because it allows the emulation of the featureset of 2007-ish era corporate social media, but I worry that it scares off some of the "my ideal social media would be managed in bash scripts" folks who do cool altweb stuff – or the handwritten HTML people who mostly seem to be detoxing from anything frameworky, I presume because of their day jobs.
I wonder if RSS feeds are structured enough to do most of the work. I know it feels like backwards progress to the Real Indieweb folks given the origins of microformats and a preference to not duplicate content, but...
WordPress wants to be the Operating System for the Web.
What is the POSIX of the web