a thought that just resurfaced: it'd be cool if mastodon / the fediverse at large had some kind of standard way to surface people's blog rss feeds and the like.
like remember how facebook used to let you publish a feed? that was of course a stepping stone to their enclosure of the web - but what's, like, the conceptual inverse of that? a thing that uses the energy here to build the whole open-web-glued-together-by-some-protocols side of things instead of trying to eat it?
@brennen WebFinger allows quite a bit in the returned JSON Resource Description file, including a list of links to other resources. It would be great to have your blog, or even other social media profiles, entered into your Mastodon profile and then accessible via WebFinger.
@brennen oh, and it looks like the latest Mastodon release actually adds support for custom profile fields, so this functionality is already a step closer, yay?