Bridging the Web - Part 3
lieb
March 27, 2026
In my continued effort to syndicate my blog posts far and wide I have
implement Standard Site [1]. This is an AT Protocol Lexicon for long form
publishing. A Lexicon is a schema for structured data. Basically fields with
strict definitions of what can go in these fields. Bluesky is also based on
an AT Protocol Lexicon. The difference is that Bluesky's lexicon limits posts
to 300 characters. Standard Site expands that to 3,000 characters allowing
for longer essays.
The problem with this is that Bluesky cannot display posts published with the
Standard Site lexicon. There are however a number on new sites that do:
leaflet.pub [2] and pckt.blog [3] among others. Simply publishing my posts
with Standard Site lexicon syndicates them to these sites automatically, but
if I want them to show up on Bluesky I also have to publish them in their
lexicon (which I was already doing). The hope is that Site Standard does
indeed become a standard and becomes widely implemented. Time will tell.
So now my Blog posts are available over Indieweb, Bluesky, ActivityPub
(Mastodon), and now Standard Site. Noticeably absent from this list is
Facebook. Facebook as I'm sure you know, is not a team player and is not
interested in participating in the Open Web. a.k.a. A walled garden. This is
unfortunate, because that's where all my friends are. While I may have
followers on these other platforms, very few of them are people I actually
know. I hope this changes. I hope I can convince more of my friends to move
off of Facebook
[1] https://standard.site
[2] https://leaflet.pub
[3] https://pckt.blog/
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