What if..

LiveJournal, but federated?

Not LJ the site, but LJ the software it runs, which has always been FOSS.

Wouldn't it be cool to have personal blogging with LJ's ease and flexibility, but with seamless meshing between other instances?

Real comment threading, icons per reply, permissions per posting (public, friends only, or custom lists of friends), with no algorithms involved in the timeline, just friends' entries in chronological order.

@Momentrabbit I'm half-tempted to learn how to bring it about. =:) Don't suppose you've ever looked at the LJ source?

Though adding federation would probably prove highly entertaining, given Mastodon's some bizarre melding of frameworks and languages - maybe there's an ActivityPub framework of some kind that's more amenable to adding to a C/C++ project?

@Momentrabbit Mind, if this heat persists, maybe I'll wind up implementing ActivityPub in ARM assembly. =:)

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