Replied to a thread by Mia (not her best work) and Zach Leatherman (Twitter)

Personal sites are wonderful. But they can be a lot of work to set up & maintain. Also: personal solutions don't solve the problem of building networks & public digital spaces.

If we want 'personal sites' to be an answer to social platforms, we have a lot of work to do.
— Mia (not her best work) (@TerribleMia) April 27, 2022

Yes. I wonder how much RSS can fill the “networks” space and what else is missing? How can it be better?

Not asking you for answers, but I’m definitely thinking about this
— Zach Leatherman (@zachleat) April 27, 2022

I think RSS could be part of it. I keep circling back to: a browser could helps provide interface around RSS, webmentions, whatever - and even help you start your own simple site from a template?
— Mia (not her best work) (@TerribleMia) April 27, 2022

I always circle back to the Lost Infrastructure chart here and wonder:

in which boxes can the technology requirements be simplified for publishers and maintainers of individual websites but still allow for the broadest inter-operation?

which axes are missing?

which boxes need to be expanded with technology for better plurality?