J.Y.
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Building BlogWarp

Universal Mentions

I can mention @jmouvre @donpark @Daveand @raz they will show up as normal links on my blog.

But when viewing this post in BlogWarp I can click on them and go to the Profile pages in BlogWarp.

These mentioned blogs can be hosted anywhere of course. That's what Universal is for, eh. 😀

Comment on Reddit about Universal Mentions

I replied on Reddit why the @ sign is great but not used no the Web.

That's a very well known convention by now that most people know. Even chat apps support it. When you want to address someone, you type a @ sign, and you have a popup with your friends names. We almost forget it's there.

Who does not support it? The indieweb, and the Web in general. That's actually a powerful way to address people and to have an easy, one click way, to subscribe to people (the weak point that blocked RSS broad usage, and that was the main Twitter driver).

The UX aspect of it is not just a nice visual trick.

You could just use names indeed, but then you cannot easily distinguish between a random link and what it really is a mention of a person.

Also, using the @ sign has the technical advantage of hinting to the aggregator software (or blog software) what link is a mention and should trigger a discovery of the RSS feed behind this link. (so you can find the mentioned user blog, avatar etc...)

What does not exist is a way to not make mentions dependent of any central directory, with very simple tech (HTML and RSS).

Mastodon has similar mentions, but using what i find a very ugly format (using two @ signs, doh) and behind the scene complex protocols.

Artificial Intelligence

LLMs synthesize the world's knowledge and know-how. I don't know if that is intelligence, but that's incredibly efficient at reusing this gigantic humain brains concentrate to solve problems.

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