A year ago in Feed Overload I wrote: 99% of all microblog (and chat) content is ephemeral by design, meant for a specific moment in ti...

Social bookmarking is a novel use case for ActivityPub and I’m super excited about it. I heckin’ love links and lists! I wanna use them for everything.

Things like Bookwyrm are cool, but it’s not what I want. I just wanna link the thing. Books, films, podcasts, articles, songs…, they’re all just resource recommendations which can be encapsulated by links.

  • HandlesEnglish
    2•7 months ago

    Very cool. I took a deep but cursory dive through your netizen and weird web entries as well. I like the way you bridge low end, or practical use cases with fairly high concept approaches. I’ll definitely be taking a closer look at your writing.

  • @ElectroVagrantEnglish
    2•7 months ago

    Linkblocks definitely sounds interesting. I’ve never gotten into social bookmarking (keeping bookmarks on another site/platform…?), but I can see the draw for building knowledge-bases this way.