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	"title": "Rory Mir",
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				"title": "Chaotic POSSE: The Beautiful Mess of Interop",
				"content_html": "<p>It&rsquo;s exciting that the open social web, and its underlying nest of interoperable wires, lets you engineer the perfect social media experience for you and your needs. At its best, it can be elegant, convenient, and neatly separate the signal from the noise.</p>\n<p>But I&rsquo;m not talking about any of that. Much like the abysmal wire management under my desk, I&rsquo;m taking some delight in imagining how messy and <em>inefficient</em> the POSSE (Publish Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere) approach can be.</p>\n<h2 id=\"boundary-of-intended-use\">Boundary of Intended Use</h2>\n<p>Long before I got into the digital rights game, I was interested in how design steers behavior. Specifically, I was doing developmental psych research on how social media can complement, hinder, and/or democratize knowledge building. The thing is, people are far more diverse and interesting than any team of designers can prepare for, so emerging from the designer-user dialectic are unintended but valuable use cases. A personal favorite example is artist <a href=\"https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/12/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel-artist/\">Tatsuo Horiuchi</a>, who in retirement took to making beautiful digital art in Excel, because he already owned it and didn&rsquo;t want to get another program.</p>\n<p>In the context of Big Tech, these are the cracks in the wall which vines of free culture grow upon.</p>\n<p>In the context of a <em>beautiful open interoperable garden of freedom</em> this is maybe just a healthy dose of chaos to keep designers/engineers on their toes. These are a few design experiments I&rsquo;ve been thinking through:</p>\n<h2 id=\"obnoxious-rube-goldberg-machine-of-social-media\">Obnoxious Rube Goldberg Machine of Social Media</h2>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"https://masto.nyc/@falsemirror/116292642499850320\">flight of fancy</a> was as follows:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Trying to think up the most obnoxious social media Rube Goldberg machine possible with current apps and protocols</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>In other words this ORGMOSM challenge (sorry) is looking for the the longest daisy chain of apps and standards one can construct from a single post. So the rules of this interoperable anti-golf are:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>only the first step is user-initiated</li>\n<li>no loops or repetitions</li>\n<li>one step at a time (no branching)</li>\n<li>it must work</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Briefly noodling on this it seems BridgyFed is simply too good, and too tempting to repeat in the chain. <a href=\"https://social.gfsc.studio/@kim/116296245185148889\">Kim at Geeks for Social Change</a> helpfully nudged this thought experiment out of the &ldquo;social media&rdquo; constraint, offering a version that hops from discord to calendar to Ghost.</p>\n<p>One addendum to the initial rules also came to mind:</p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>Only deterministic code</li>\n</ol>\n<p>So vibe-coded bits are welcome, but throwing a new post at an AI agent to pass along goes against the spirit (and satisfaction) of knocking over interoperable dominoes.</p>\n<h2 id=\"shotgun-posse\">Shotgun POSSE</h2>\n<p>Inspired by recently joining micro.blog, this thought experiment is a bit easier to act on.</p>\n<p>For anyone unfamiliar, micro.blog is a blogging platform that takes the POSSE philosophy to heart. Any blogpost can be cross-posted to a whopping 11 sources, not including the main blog website, RSS, and newsletter services.</p>\n<p>The funny thing is many of these supported sources <em>also</em> support crossposting to other sources, often to new accounts with weird names. While it takes a bit less craft than ORGMOSM, the &ldquo;one to many, many to many more&rdquo; (12mm2mm?) shotgun is also fun to give a bit of thought.</p>\n<p>This blog, for example, is posting to RSS, Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads. In turn Mastodon (via BridgyFed) will share to Bluesky. Threads will share to Mastodon. Bluesky and Mastodon will share to RSS—and any RSS is open to tools like RSSParrot to cross-post further. This is what I managed <em>accidentally</em>, imagine how irritating I can be <em>intentionally</em>.</p>\n<p>In many ways this interoperable echo isn&rsquo;t &ldquo;good&rdquo;, and maybe highlights a need for better identity management on the open social web. If someone wants to follow my posts they have a lot of doppelgangers to choose from, with plenty of fake-account risks. At least folks have (several) on-platform options.</p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m excited to think through more noisy silly ways to use these pipes behind the open social web, and the freedom to do so is what makes these tools so important (and fun).</p>\n",
				"summary": "Appreciating the creative chaos of arranging the open social web\u0026rsquo;s interconnected platforms in complex and deliberately inefficient ways.",
				"date_published": "2026-03-31T14:02:18-04:00",
				"url": "https://falsemirror.micro.blog/2026/03/31/chaotic-posse-the-beautiful-mess.html",
				"tags": ["opensocialweb"]
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