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The platform era is ending. Rather than build new Twitters and Facebooks, we can create a stuff-posting system that works better for everybody. (www.theverge.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not going to happen. The majority of users are tech illiterate. They have no idea to set this up nor any desire to pay domain name fees and web hosting fees....

Only a few techies like us might do it but nothing more than that.

Plus it doesn't work the way they think. I already have a blog and occasionally post there and share it to social media. All the interaction, if there is any, happens on social, not on my blog.

Blogs are simply a place to post long form content but not designed for massive amount of replies and social interaction.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

The problem is dns, we have to kill dns and the verisign-industrial-complex.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

This is how the Internet was always meant to be. You're supposed to create and host your own content, then link to content on other sites. Silos are useful but they've gone too far. An established system for sharing media like this needed to happen.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (2 children)

As much as I love decentralization and activitypub, this is very ignorant for ignoring lock in and network effect

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This old article isn't really about that. It's arguing for posting everywhere, including in silos and linking back. If anything, it's talking about the opposite of what you're alluding to. I don't find the argument that format doesn't matter convincing though. What you post on tiktok isn't the same as a voluminous blog post or a YouTube video. Sounds like a lot of work.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I have a blog and a gallery on my own domain. I just want a system for people to interact and recommend my blog and photos that isn't WordPress, and that is so damn hard to find. A federated wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff that connects existing sites.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Some kind of ring that links webs together?

None of that is new, it’s just not profitable and so we (humankind) dropped it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Webrings were cool but flawed. I'd like something like tumblr, where you can comment and @ someone, but in a federated system where each would manage their own.

I thought about using Mastodon as a comment system for my blog but the tools to accomplish it are way over my head. I'm not a developer, just someone who happens to know how to install a CMS and to tweak some HTML and CSS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Blog pingbacks have existed forever but for different purposes

Somebody has actually implemented a Bluesky commenting system too already

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Wish someone would build one that made it really easy to connect to everyone in your email and phone contacts. Instead we have Twitter 2 electric boogaloo.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (3 children)

"Stuff posting"

So, BBSes and Newsgroups.

What, you thought social media was ever anything more?

Everything old is new again. But are we gonna go back to dialup modems for a purer analog hipster lifestyle?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Exactly completely different use cases i personnely think fediverse or rather dicentralised is the future

[–] [email protected] 126 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Source @MrLovenstein

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wish you linked to the Mastodon version of this comic, instead of the bird site: https://mastodon.social/@MrLovenstein/112054862268601490

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Fair!

[–] [email protected] 58 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, this is what the internet started out as; and I think we're slowly coming back around to it.

Anyone wanna join my webring? I mean...uhh...my fediverse? Or whatever?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For real, with the shitty state of modern search engines I'd love to see the return of webrings.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Some sort of reputation system with incentives to avoid low effort posts or spam perhaps?

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