@matigo Just as a quick example, I cannot find a permalink to the post to which I am replying. (Probably my stupidity.) That means I cannot now reply to it from one of my sites, even if I wanted to simply in order to draw attention to the discussion happening here. And people who might see that post can't reply to it either, without signing up for 10C. All of which is a brake on the wider use of 10C.
@matigo People are using it where they can. Still fairly niche, but unless there's a way of displaying the results, not much point. So, You just replied to my recent post on my Known site. With webmentions, you could have replied from here. But you wouldn't do that easily unless you were also reading that post here. But I don't cross-post to here, because there's no easy mechanism that would give me any benefit.
One of the most interesting developments in that space now is the emerging collaboration between WebSub and MicroPub, to create feed readers that allow you to interact directly with what you're reading. So you can bookmark, like, reply, quote and so on.
Webmentions are the glue that sticks all the bits in all the sites together.
10C isn't getting them because 10C doesn't do anything with them.
@matigo That’s why I think nice.social was one of your greatest achievements and was, I believe, an inspiration for microblog. At the moment, mb doesn’t need anything like that and nor does 10C. Integration would help, I know, but then 10C would not be very different.
In my opinion, full mf2 markup on 10C would be a great start as it would permit those of us who want to share to mb to do so easily. Webmentions next, to allow backfeeds of responses etc.
/@hybotics
@phoneboy Filling the timeline with cross posts in either direction is not a great idea. I don’t have any better ideas though, only marketing more but that’s time consuming, difficult and uncertain.
/@matigo @joeo10
@joanna You’re right about that. This place is much chattier. That place is more like a megaphone. But there are occasional conversations and when they happen the quality and civility are high.
/@matigo
@matigo An excellent recommendation. I shall share it tomorrow, possibly with a link to your coffee rant. ?