Additional SNUB Notes
Firstly, isn't SNUB such a wonderful acronym for a Social Network Using Blogs? The irony being that "snub" means something similar to "rebuke" or "restrain", while my1 SNUB concept is all about being resistant to moderation (in an effort to give everyone a voice – including those voices I vehemently disagree with).
Secondly, I might have been unclear in my original description. I do not mean to suggest that some system would include comments or response posts on the original post's webpage. Instead, I would imagine some kind of client-side application (likely a feed reading application or a browser extension) that would present response posts or comment-style posts to the reader in an appropriate UX.
Another related note: because of the unidirectional nature of SNUB, authors are able to comment on or reply to any webpage2 and still be discovered by the web-of-follows. This allows for reviews of products, restaurants, and anything else in a discoverable and censorship-resistant way. Because a web-of-follows is generally an allowlist tree of known actors, it's resistant to spam3, which increases the credibility of these reviews.
not that it's some kind of intellectual property that I own or even invented, I simply mean the one that I described.↩
Any webpage, as long as the URL doesn't change. Though even that wouldn't matter if everyone's browsers automatically collected an archive of the pages they've visited. That's a topic for another post though.↩
Not only spam, but it's also resistant to newcomers that lack connections within the network. That aspect does disappoint me, but I hope it's not as big of a deal given the human-focused nature of the SNUB system. Discoverability is a hard problem, and I think SNUB strikes a balance between everything-is-easily-discoverable (what we have on modern social networks) and nothing-is-easily-discoverable (what we currently have on most blogs).↩