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Pretty sure some federated social network is gonna win. Enclaves that are run by some tech-minded friend like BBSes, I dunno.
by drhayes9 11y ago
Pretty sure some federated social network is gonna win. Enclaves that are run by some tech-minded friend like BBSes, I dunno.
- aikah 11y agoI was thinking about a decentralized social network. Syndication is easy ( RSS ) , communication between 2 websites in a secure way is tougher (ping backs?). RSS + ping backs + openid, open techs should be enough to setup a network or websites without a central authority. Obviously it's neither in Facebook, Twitter or Google's interest since they want people to visit their website in order to build an audience. But the tech is there.
- drhayes9 11y agoYeah, absolutely. I think you could do a circle of trust thing with other networks so that if A trusts B and B trusts C then messages could flow from A to C and back again. That could mitigate the pingback spam problem: not just anybody could pingback, they have to be trusted. And if your enclave gets too big then you can splinter it out and web it back together. If it's small enough it could sneak under the free limits of most PaaSes. And despite needing some kind of techy admin I think the shibboleth thing could provide a layer of cool needed to sell the thing. Not that I think this could make money. ( =
- detaro 11y agoYou (or the GP) might be interested the Vouch extension for Webmentions: http://indiewebcamp.com/vouch http://indiewebcamp.com/vouch, and the indieweb ideas in general.