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Over the past few years, I've noticed a certain behavior in myself: I want too much. I'd like to write more, not just technically, but also other forms of writing. And I love making music, both with my band and privately. I listen to a lot of different music and often think: I want to do something like that. And I watch movies and series and then think about the story or the mood, or both: I want to do that too. And I like programming small and large tools and hacks and the like.

The time we all have at our disposal is finite. Viewed as a whole and in relation to the day. I can't do everything, I tell myself over and over again. Programming, writing, music, telling stories. I have to make decisions and set limits...

But that's not true at all!

In the old days™️, comments could be found on pretty much every blog. Most blog systems included them, or they could be quickly added using plugins. For me, comments belong on every blog.

Today, that's not necessarily the norm anymore. This isn't just for technical reasons. While blogging often involves WordPress, it's no longer standard practice. There are many systems out there, and there are many blogs that no longer have a CMS running in the background. Static pages are generated from text sources.

Well, first of all, it should be noted that the Blog Weeks are essentially also a kind of blog parade, and the number of participants recently suggests that such activities are still quite popular.

I also keep stumbling across blog memes (“blog sticks”) when browsing through the blogs I subscribe to. Usually, these involve a handful of questions that one person answers and then nominates others to do the same.

Both ideas foster networking: they help discover new blogs and get to know the people behind them a bit better. Of course, people are happy to take part. On the one hand, topics are practically handed to you, and on the other, such activities always promise new readers.

A problem we repeatedly face at Sociabli is user handles on different platforms.

If you offer a service that allows you to post something on Mastodon and then mirror that post on another network, you inevitably run into the problem of user handles.

If I mention a user on Mastodon, the mention no longer works when mirroring on Bluesky. Even if the user has an account on both networks, the format of the user handles is different.

We've spent a long time thinking about how to solve this, and we always end up with some kind of user handle mapping.