Notices by Alexandra Samuel (awsamuel@cosocial.ca)

How do we survive hard times, when we're all in pain together?
I've been thinking about that a lot this week—a week that in so many ways has felt like the earliest and most terrifying days of Covid lockdown.

Being sad together is both harder and more comforting than being sad separately. When you're going through a painful personal experience like a bereavement, a breakup or an illness, there are usually people you can lean on. And yet it can be very lonely to be alone in the sadness. /cont

@evan @mfowler @pfefferle @snarfed.org Yep I installed a half-dozen plugins but there was a lot more troubleshooting ahead and I couldn't see a route to Threads support anyhow. Love the indieweb vibe but I'm super vulnerable to tech distractions so a solution that just works is highly preferable to a better solution that will tempt me into tech nerdery.

@evan absolutely! And in fact it feels like that's what Jetpack Social is doing -- making it easier. But is there a reason to use indieweb instead? That's what left me feeling defeated. Or at least, disinclined to fall down a fourth-order rabbithole.

A friend suggested Indieweb as an alternative to Jetpack Social but after playing around a bit with Indieweb plugins + Bridgy, I’m struck by the high barriers to entry. If we want people to embrace a decentralized web where you can interact with multiple networks from your own instance, it needs to be much easier to get up & running.

@evan Found your thread with @mfowler while looking for your wisdom on Bridgy vs Bridgy Fed. I'm going to use my wordpress site as my hub and even though I grasp the difference between the two forms of bridgy I can't figure out which one will feel more organic to the people I interact with on Bsky and Masto.

I stopped using Twitter eight months ago, but only noticed tonight that I have a Twitter shout-out on my business card! Time to get a new business cards.