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@matigo Your question is probably a lot deeper than I understand. Basically, you store the data you want to store. You present the data you want to present. So, for example, I have links to posts of yours at matigo.ca. If you had a micropub server, on your site or elsewhere, as I have, it would receive webmentions from me. You could choose to store all or none of the payload, and display whichever bits of it you want to.

I'm storing my data. You're storing your data. Webmention is tying us together, if we want to be tied together.

And microformats are telling our various systems which bits mean what.

@hazardwarning Known won't do paid hosting for you any more unless you are in education, but it is completely open source and you can easily download and host your own instance.

// @matigo

@matigo I don't think you are overanalysing it. I think you are mistaken in thinking of it as a thing. It isn't. It's a set of interactions. And those are implemented in different ways by different people. There is no overarching data model.

@hazardwarning Simpler, and not gone forever by any means.

Some people are starting to host multi-user Known installs for their family and friends. If you could FTP to Claranet, you could manage that.

// @matigo

@hazardwarning

the first thing I would do would be to design a WP theme that just worked.

Believe me, people are trying. But it isn't anybody's day job.

As for the wiki, I confess that that is an area where I have sometimes been annoyed that edits of mine have been reverted for reasons I cannot agree with, and that aren't explained well either. But again, the best thing you can do is point to areas of confusion, either publicly or privately, IYKWIM, and someone will attempt to fix it up.

I find bits of it confusing myself, but I'm not able to fix those, usually. I may, however, be able to fix things other people find confusing.

// @matigo

@hazardwarning I'm hoping David will let him do more of that. They were talking over one another a little too often for my taste.

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@konrad By what one thing was AOL replaced?

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@gtwilson Your priorities are upside down.

@matigo A chicken post is pure inside baseball, whatever that is. :)

Here's my own response to the same post [jeremycherfas.net] that seems to have triggered the podcast.

For what it is worth, I don't believe that any something is going to do the job of replacing FB or Twitter. I'm more interested in how people can avoid the worst of those silos, for example by disengaging from the data-sharing as much as possible, or silencing retweets, which apparently makes the Twitter experience more bearable.

If people want out, they'll find way. I mean, people squealing about how am I going to share things with my family seem to have forgotten things like email.

@matigo No, it isn't just a problem with language. It is the classic problem of two guys chewing the fat without a clear agenda and without taking into account that some listeners won't know the ideas, let alone the language. Also, the audio quality. But it can only improve.