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I've added endpoints to my website to follow Caleb's new SocialSpec APIs - feed, following, about, and contact. Interested to see where this goes.

How does it compare to the IndieWeb at large?

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.

Yes, I like how it’s formalising URLs for common standards, e.g. your blogroll in opml format.

...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.

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.