Leaflet, standard.site, and open social publishing! - Leaflet Lab Notes

The creators' account of their co-development of, and move to, standard.site, "and how we plan to grow publishing × open social together".

Standard.site is "a set of shared standards for longform publishing on the open social web...a set of AT Protocol lexicons for:

• publication metadata: what a publication is, like its name, description, and basic theme
• document metadata: basics of what a given post contains, with content optional
• subscriptions: records of who's following a given publication"

The result "makes it easier for platforms and publications to coordinate and build cool things together... [but] this is not a standard for site content... [as] We each want to explore different things with our platforms...

• Publishing apps can ... make content discoverable across platforms...
• Individual sites ... from indie blogs to big publishers ... give their content a presence on the open social web."

Leaflet's own migration was "to our knowledge one of the largest schema migrations in the atmosphere so far", and they set out who else are doing the same thing via additional leaflets before turning to "Open social publishing — blogosphere to atmosphere!"

• standard.site makes "atproto publishing platforms more interoperable — and ... easier to bridge atproto and the rest of the internet"
• example: "Leaflet and Pckt can both render previews of posts created on [any] other platform ... [via] our respective Reader pages. Others can make entirely separate readers, or search engines, or bookmarking tools ... experiment with different features and ways to add value for readers and writers"
• "offers publishers a flexible way to bring existing publications onto atproto ... complementing... existing standards... to make your site discoverable on atproto, without having to migrate your content"
• They also want to explore helping "existing sites to both implement standard.site and layer on social pieces like comments and subscriptions"

And there are plenty of other questions to resolve; they outline some which have emerged since their announcement.