How would you reimagine blogs around graph databases as the foundation? (Roam, Notion, Gatsby all seem to have blog like functionality in their sights but it feels like a stepchild use case relative to their core use cases of notes, wikis, collaboration, static pages)https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1200097087746011136 …
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The key tension in a blog is between the irreversibility of the log stream in time and the evolving internal reference structure. There is a natural asymmetry as old posts don’t get updated to point to future posts that reference them.
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I think codebase evolution on git has a similar natural structure. The “diff” maps to the “post” and “parent version” to “backlink” Maybe pull request = comment?
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The blogchain concept is something like an attempt to jury-rig an explicit graph structure as
@tomcritchlow pointed out yesterday, but still with temporality as strictly dominant organizing principle. The basic DAG must be an approximate partial temporal order. Cycles are add-onsShow this thread
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Tag clouds are the proto-graph of the blogging world. It’s a concept worth revisiting.
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