{"id":3922,"date":"2017-01-15T17:53:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T16:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=3922"},"modified":"2017-01-15T17:53:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T16:53:03","slug":"microblogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2017\/01\/15\/microblogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Microblogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being in &#8220;maintenance&#8221; mode for a couple of years, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.app.net\/2017\/01\/12\/app-net-is-shutting-down\/\">App.net is shutting down completely<\/a>. I quite liked the service and their ambitious ideas for enabling <em>more<\/em> than just a 140-character stream. I had a paid subscription for a while, but ultimately it didn&#8217;t pan out. The network effects never took hold, and it ended up as too small a niche to be self-sustaining.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m intrigued to see <a href=\"http:\/\/manton.org\/\">Manton Reece<\/a> trying to do something new in this same space. He is running a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/manton\/indie-microblogging-owning-your-short-form-writing\">kickstarter for an &#8220;indie microblogging&#8221; service<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/micro.blog\/\">micro.blog<\/a>), and a book to go along with it. From what I can tell, it&#8217;s a re-thinking of classic blogging tools and RSS for the modern era. RSS readers were great, but nowadays people expect the simplicity of clean-looking apps and a simpler, more socially-oriented timeline. This looks like it might provide a solution along those lines, while still being rooted in the open web, and holding on to its distributed nature.<\/p>\n<p>Homestly, I&#8217;ll be surprised if the service turns into a long-term sustainable venture. The niche of people who care if their social network is a walled garden or built on open standards is tiny, and shrinking. But I&#8217;m still going to back it, because I&#8217;m one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being in &#8220;maintenance&#8221; mode for a couple of years, App.net is shutting down completely. I quite liked the service and their ambitious ideas for enabling more than just a 140-character stream. I had a paid subscription for a while, but ultimately it didn&#8217;t pan out. The network effects never took hold, and it ended &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2017\/01\/15\/microblogging\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microblogging&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3923,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions\/3923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}