Your social web on your blog

I’ve been reading the book Indie Microblogging by Manton Reece, and really enjoying it. It’s an interesting view into the history of blogging and related web technologies. Among other things, there’s a chapter on the intersection of having a blog and it also being your social web presence through Fediverse/ActivityPub instead of you signing up for social media accounts elsewhere on centralized or community servers that you don’t control. The chapter speaks to its importance:

With Mastodon, you usually have a mix of Twitter-like instances based on ActivityPub, each one holding many users, often thousands. […] Instead of multi-user instances, a more distributed web should contain many solo instances, each a blog for just one person with their own domain name. […] ActivityPub is now widely deployed and makes a great addition to most blog platforms, as long as there’s a solid foundation first with personal domain names, feeds, and IndieWeb standards.

I’ve noticed in my own usage of Mastodon that while your account followers are portable to other servers, your username is not and neither are your posts. The Fediverse is therefore anything but like blogs, where your domain and posts both persist across platforms. Manton thus has a Fediverse presence through his own blog on his own domain at @[email protected]. Ghost is offering the same for blogs. It’s a sensible idea. Do you have your independent Fediverse presence too? I’m interested to hear how and where you set it up.