thoughts on standard.site

I’ve previously written about publishing your blog to standard.site and I created annot.at, a service for publishing static blog content to the protocol. I’m a huge fan of the lexicon and the community around it, it’s incredibly cool that it opens the door to sites that make that content discoverable like Standard Reader, and it has the potential to replace RSS feeds for subscribing to blog posts. It’s a great initiative and I’m very happy it exists. I finally listened to the OffProtocol podcast episode “Why don’t we just do this together”, with the originators of standard.site. And it got me thinking, as someone who has been using the lexicon, publishing things, and who has built a service that publishes RSS feed content to it, bridging the technologies, I do have some thoughts on how we can maybe improve things as a community. Record keys have to be TIDs This isn’t immediately obvious if your content originates from the protocol, as is the case for services like leaflet.pub,…