Today I want to talk about a different piece of another protocol that's current being developed by the Indieweb community. Microsub is a piece of "plumbing", which is something that a user doesn't see directly, that allows you to follow different sites and recieve updates when they make new posts. It works like an RSS reader, but just like yesterday's Micropub is loosely coupled. The server is the part that takes feeds/sites and subscribes to them. It cleans up that data and makes it easily presentable. All the user data is stored in the server. You can also create channels which contain certain posts. The client for the reader displays your timeline which includes the various posts from the feeds you're subscribed to. You can also view the channels you've created in your reader. The beauty of this protocol is that they are completely seperate parts. Again, like yesterday, this means you can use different pieces developed by different people and put them together without a problem!
I really think there's a lot of potential with this idea and I encourage you to check it out. It's amazing to see how different people contribute to try to make the web a better place. Until next time!