Title: Re: A solution for social media?
Author: Alex Kirk
Published: January 21, 2021

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# Re: A solution for social media?

January 21, 2021

[This post by Jan-Lukas Else](https://jlelse.blog/posts/social-media-solution) resonates
a lot with me as I am building the [Friends Plugin](https://wpfriends.at/) with 
exactly the attempt of integrating the social aspect of blogging more into your 
own blog.

The Friends plugins joins the aspect of reading / following your friends’ blogs /
twitters / etc. with seamless posting on your friends’ blogs, if you have established
a friendship, thus (theoretically) allowing a full social experience (Facebook-like),
just in the blogging world, not tied to a single vendor.

Having implemented this as a WordPress plugin brings the inherent requirement (with
no other implementations yet, which are very much possible) of WordPress, but at
the same time I think it lowers the barrier of entry, since it’s relatively easy
to get a new WordPress blog hosted where you like.

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