Connected, but not captured

I do not want Moments to become another place that tries to keep people inside. That sounds obvious, but it shapes a lot of small decisions. A photo journal should be a home for your photos, not a cage around them. Some people already have a blog. Some have a homepage. Some have a now page. Some have a little personal site that has existed for years. Moments should not ask those places to become less important. So I added a small way to let moments appear elsewhere. A few photos from a trip can sit inside a blog post. Recent moments can appear on a personal homepage. A quiet photo journal can become part of someone’s existing corner of the web. Not as content to optimize. More like placing a photo on a shelf. I have also been working on Mastodon and Fediverse support. That one is harder to explain without making it sound more technical than it is. The simple version is this: people should be able to respond from their own place, without Moments needing to become another social…