hi, it's mike https://mike.puddingtime.org/tags/socialspec/ Recent content on hi, it's mike Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us mike@puddingtime.org (mike) mike@puddingtime.org (mike) © 2026, mike Sun, 15 Nov 2026 05:13:18 +0000 … also overhauled my #POSSE publishing chain, thanks… https://mike.puddingtime.org/notes/2026-11-15-3n2daw4t3x22j/ Sun, 15 Nov 2026 05:13:18 +0000mike@puddingtime.org (mike) https://mike.puddingtime.org/notes/2026-11-15-3n2daw4t3x22j/ … also overhauled my #POSSE publishing chain, thanks to thinking about it through the #socialspec lens. If the big idea is that our individual websites are the basis of our social identity on the web, then I was getting it wrong with my previous approach, which treated all my internet presences as … … also overhauled my #POSSE publishing chain, thanks to thinking about it through the #socialspec lens.

If the big idea is that our individual websites are the basis of our social identity on the web, then I was getting it wrong with my previous approach, which treated all my internet presences as coequal: Mastodon, Bluesky, website, Pixelfed, all pointing at each other and nowhere.

So I’m thinking in terms of my website being “home.” To do that, it now keeps a record of everything I post everywhere:

  • Post to Pixelfed, boosted to Mastodon, posted on my site
  • Post to Mastodon from Ivory, also posted on my site
  • Plain old posts, syndicated to Mastodon and Bluesky

I avoided thinking in terms of my site as a home I’d want to attract people to because I was forced to think that way when I worked in commercial online media: We were pushed to barge out into the social web and try to grab attention.

But a difference of opinion with a sort of major dude on the social web scene a few years ago has stuck with me:

I asked him to support hashtags in micro.blog and he was resistant for a variety of reasons, but wanted to know why I wanted them. I said it was about discoverability. He wanted to know “why is it so important to be discovered?”

Which, it’s why I’m bothering doing any of this. I want to interact with people online! To do that, they have to find me! Hashtags are a way for them to find me in a fairly non-pushy, non-obtrusive way: If I add a few to a post, and someone is using their platform’s hashtag discovery tools, maybe they’ll find what I had to say about something and I can make a new friend.

… and carrying that thought through, I am okay with saying “hello" at a conversational volume, and also saying, “this is my home over here. If you’d like to get to know me, it’s the probably the best place to do that.”

Drop a line about this.

]]> I’ve been working on the scoring engine for… https://mike.puddingtime.org/notes/2026-11-15-3n2d6ivi7lf2n/ Sun, 15 Nov 2026 04:30:07 +0000mike@puddingtime.org (mike) https://mike.puddingtime.org/notes/2026-11-15-3n2d6ivi7lf2n/ I’ve been working on the scoring engine for my #RSS reader. It uses my own feeds now to score individual articles, adding a nudge to the score if it can see I’ve been posting or writing about the article’s topic. The #socialspec stuff is in place in the iOS version, too. Long press a site with … I’ve been working on the scoring engine for my #RSS reader. It uses my own feeds now to score individual articles, adding a nudge to the score if it can see I’ve been posting or writing about the article’s topic.

The #socialspec stuff is in place in the iOS version, too. Long press a site with profile information and see their about.md and browse what they’re following.

socialspec is soooo easy to implement. Hope it picks up traction. Ghost and micro.blog have already added it.

Drop a line about this.

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