i'm pretty sure you've seen this bluesky post:
If you like writing long threads on Bluesky, wait until you discover "blog posts." Start blogging with @pckt.blog, @leaflet.pub or @offprint.app today and get 25% off your first year, on us.
and you might be asking "what the FUCK is a standard.site??? where are these names come from???", well, let me explain...
"but lime! didn't you already explain it in skittr blog?" YES I DID
the way i did it was kinda stupid so i'm doing it again
so what's standard.site even about?
imagine you are in 2007, you found a cool blog and you want to stay in touch with it, so you do this:
download a feed reader
find the url of the blog's feed, copy it and then paste it into your feed reader
and some time later, you get new posts from that blog on your feed reader
people that lived during the golden age of the web might be familiar with this kind of technology and it's very simple name: "rss" (there's also atom, which looks like it's the same thing as rss, but it's actually now)
standard.site (later referring as "stansite") is similar to rss, except it's different, VERY different
what's the difference?
you can see followers
although it's not really THAT necessary, stansite offers a feature that allows you to follow favorite blogs from different platforms (leaflet, pckt, offprint, etc.) using your bluesky/blacksky/northsky/eurosky account and you can keep up with your fav. blogs no matter what device you use
you technically can do the same thing with rss by memorizing or writing down every single feed url, or you can use an opml list which carries all rss/atom feeds, but you have to keep it preserved and make sure you don't accidentally delete it
it's flexible
stansite offers platform-exclusive features for simply displaying markup on blog posts, you can create your type of markup for your platform or reuse it from an existing one
and if you just prefer markdown, markpub got you covered
"why can't we just embed plain markdown in a single json file like how whitewind does?"
well, you can, but it would exceed limits depending on what markup format you use
and speaking of whitewind, i just WISH it had stansite support but it's pretty much an abandoned atproto platform so the chances are kinda low
you can plug it anywhere!
and if you don't want to use an existing platform, you can simply grab you existing site and integrate stansite!
it supports any type of blogs, from basic static sites on neocities to wordpress sites, to even plain rss feeds!
i use sequoia for skittr blog since it has support for static site generators (astro, eleventy, zola, etc.)
this actually sound cool! where do i start?
there are ALOT of stansite browsers you can use, but i'll list a few ones:
i hope you have a great time exploring blogs (and maybe creating one) on the wider atmosphere!