soemand

Logged back into SSB today — the proto‑Bluesky that never picked up the venture‑capital exit vibes. The community is still surprisingly active, even though many of the apps built to access the network have long since been abandoned. There’s a familiar spirit between SSB and this place, something that feels a bit like the old LiveJournal era: small pockets of people writing for each other rather than for an algorithm.

If I could log on more often, I would. But most days I’m juggling parenting duties, and long stretches of quiet internet time are a luxury I don’t always have.

SSB does come with one major drawback: it’s fully append‑only. Once you publish something, it’s there forever. No edits, no deletions — changing anything would break the underlying blockchain. It’s charming in a way, but also a reminder of how much we’ve come to expect the ability to revise ourselves online.

Managed to setup a scheme using DW, Mastodon, RSS to see and comment both locally and on the fediverse. The superglue in this is RSS, where I have followed the people I'm interested in seeing; and have allowed anonymous comments should they follow my rss feed from DW to be able to comment. This was an observation from 🐿 kas that my initial thoughts would be simply one way to fediverse. The anonymous commenting adds the reverse path.

This all in anticipation that someday DW becomes a fediverse aware. As tei mentioned in a post; the fediverse⥈DW bridge is at the idea stage — and at this time is simply a nice to have.