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How does it compare to the IndieWeb at large?

hypertexting.devHyperTemplates Reference DocumentationMake Hypertext.

I've spent a lot of time looking at the various indie web projects, including microformats (e.g. h-cards), and I love me some HTML templating (that's why I built hypertexting.dev/docs/referen...)! SocialSpec shouldn't be in conflict with indie web ideas.

And my initial goal with SocialSpec is to think of it as a **documentation** project. I haven't invented anything here really. Just documenting some ideas based on existing open standards.

...but my thinking about approaches like h-cards has always been that they require per-theme implementation effort as opposed to a per-CMS implementation effort. The SocialSpec APIs should require significantly less effort; they are single purpose, single file, and a single request APIs.

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Sounds like your aim is similar to what OStatus was some 10-15 years ago – connect existing things together with some minimal additional glue rather than inventing something new. I have lots I want to say and propose but little time to do so 🙈

I'm willing to wait to hear more thoughts! ...I still need to flesh out some kind of RFC / feedback process in the GitHub repos to facilitate these conversations. For now I've only stubbed issue #1 in each repo.

gist.github.comFeedback for https://socialspec.org/ based on / inspired by RFC 6415, 7033 and 8288Feedback for https://socialspec.org/ based on / inspired by RFC 6415, 7033 and 8288 - host-meta.json

Here's how I would do it: gist.github.com/voxpelli/fbe... Base it on link relations rather than .well-known URL:s as: - link relations are possible to create without having to register them to be spec compliant - one request can discover everything - builds on existing WebFinger (and/or host-meta)