How would you reimagine blogs around graph databases as the foundation?

(Roam, Notion, Gatsby all seem to have blog like functionality in their sights but it feels like a stepchild use case relative to their core use cases of notes, wikis, collaboration, static pages) https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1200097087746011136

I guess the question to ask is, what is the most natural graph underlying a blog. I think it is the graph of internal references. Here’s the ribbonfarm graph. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/03/18/elderblog-sutra-5/

The key tension in a blog is between the irreversibility of the log stream in time and the evolving internal reference structure. There is a natural asymmetry as old posts don’t get updated to point to future posts that reference them.

I think codebase evolution on git has a similar natural structure. The “diff” maps to the “post” and “parent version” to “backlink”

Maybe pull request = comment?

The blogchain concept is something like an attempt to jury-rig an explicit graph structure as @tomcritchlow pointed out yesterday, but still with temporality as strictly dominant organizing principle. The basic DAG must be an approximate partial temporal order. Cycles are add-ons