You could probably take one of my workflows [phoneboy.com] and modify it to accept text as input (e.g. from Drafts or similar).

I might write a few blog posts on the topic, but an actual book? Yeah, no. ?
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10C doesn't have that option. It's definitely possible in WordPress. Maybe another blog post is in order.
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Thats part of it. Adding rel=me links is possible on my microblog site, but I don't necessarily have reciprocal links on my social Media profiles. Those don't necessarily have to be of the rel=me variety, thankfully.
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IndieAuth is another lovely example of shit that should work but doesn't because they failed to consider a different use case.
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If I didn't have a cheap account on a cpanel host I wasn't already making use of, I wouldn't have bothered.
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Most web hosts have fairly straightforward ways to install WordPress. It's definitely better than it used to be.
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the scary thing is: I don't think the proponents of the service see and understand that. They just see "not Twitter" and think it's good.

Pretty much. And they're basically building their own filter bubble.

ouch as in painful or?