Matt @matt@writing.exchange

Inspired by the news of Starbucks getting into Web3 yesterday (h/t @molly0xfff), I made a bot that generates news about other companies getting on the bandwagon, using an old list of Fortune 500 companies and buzzwords from Wikipedia.

🤖 @web3pavestheway

☕ https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2022/starbucks-brewing-revolutionary-web3-experience-for-its-starbucks-rewards-members/

@sl007 @evonity Yeah, Mastodon doesn't provide a good UX -- it says the request is "Pending" when things just outright fail.

Most common cause of this issue is Mastodon not being able to access the /.well-known/ directory on your WriteFreely server. Make sure this URL is accessible, replacing my 'write.as' and 'matt@write.as' info with yours: https://write.as/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:matt@write.as

✅ It has decentralization: you can self-host
✅ It has interoperability: you get a JPEG on your hard drive
✅ It has payments: your grandma can use them
✅ It has status-signaling: leave your name as a patron

It is web3 and I am now web3

As a fun project last night, I made a little storefront for selling JPEGs — or what I'd call NFPs (Neat, Fun Photos) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@yaaps@banana.dog Whoa, that would be pretty amazing!

I do think for some creative / personal sites, people will want to see it presented exactly how they designed it. But I'm sure there are many cases where this kind of dynamic setup would be perfect. Linktree-like sites? One-page business cards? Art / photography portfolios?

@strypey Yep! The vision is basically identical, and some of those standards could be really useful!

I think where we differ is in usability. IndieWeb seems more oriented toward / only accessible to people who understand web development.

I'd like to make this stuff as easy to use as social media is. So the tech isn't the selling point, but the long-term stability and creative latitude are.

@alastair Yes me too!

I feel like you only really need other protocols when you want to notify people and/or have a private feed.

Of course blogrolls publicly show everyone you "follow" or "friend" on your site. But additional protocols and formats, like RSS for plain subscribing and #ActivityPub for notifying others, could enable a private home feed and everything around that.

The cool thing is this could take a million different forms, on both the creation and connecting sides.

The website builder could be generic and user-friendly, like Figma, or more niche and purpose-made, like a blogging platform.

Connecting sites is as easy as linking to them. So a site-building platform could make it easy for people to manage these links to friends' sites (e.g. a "blogroll"), and then publicly display those links or not.

If the web itself is the social network, the website is the atomic element of that network. We just need it to be easy to create a website, and then connect it with others.