A related thought — Summoned here by a Jetpack app notification, I’m leaving this comment from my phone. That’s not my usual experience. I’m realizing Jetpack for iOS feels more and more like a WP version of the Substack app. It’s also like my experience with Beeper where I can reply to many Slack groups and LinkedIn comments, or DMs anywhere. Such centralization is convenient, but I can lose context. Finding and reading nested comments (and finding them again later) might become a labyrinth. It could become too frictionless — too easy to blast out comments in all directions, confuse DMs and public channels… we need to know which cafe we’re in. It’s not the dive bar or five star restaurant we’re also simultaneously in. That simultaneity — Glissant’s tout-monde in our hands — can be the chaos opera or the concert of the world. Federated islands in an archipelago need comments to be like an island taxi we both enter briefly, you from the cafe, I from the dive bar.
