@tindall Microblogging gives me a space to drop thoughts without much care for form or structure. It's convenient and mostly entertaining for consumption, but I don't really like it. It's fire-and-forget outbound, and inbound is a disconnected random stream.
Most forums I used were small communities built around a topic, moderately active. It was hard to stay when you lost connection to the main topic.
Funny you mention G+ - for all its failures, it was a good place between forums and blogs.
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@humanetech @freemo @galaxis @tindall @ColinTheMathmo @Chartodon
Definitely! An earlier step in the process is for a server to traverse such a tree and solve this simpler problem: https://github.com/magicstone-dev/ecko/issues/266
A navigable graph UI would be super cool!
@freemo @humanetech @galaxis @tindall I recall a Usenet client having such an overview at the top of your post, a bit like the branches in a git repository - although it's been decades, so I might slightly misremember.
Actually, a git-like view might work quite well to give you an idea of where you are in the convo. It'd be a client-side thing, though.
@doenietzomoeilijk Classic news readers - and mail clients - would build the tree from metadata in the posts (Message-ID: and References: on Usenet, maybe with the Subject as a fallback). Not sure how ActivityPub handles this, but I think it seemed quite similar in principle.
@freemo @galaxis @tindall
That is a good idea! The map is credit @ColinTheMathmo who created the @Chartodon bot service.
cc @weex something for #ecko?