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Would you consider writing a blog post on all the tech stacks you tried and how it panned out? I'm kind of in the same place as you and there is just an overwhe

Would you consider writing a blog post on all the tech stacks you tried and how it panned out? I'm kind of in the same place as you and there is just an overwhelming number of underwhelming options.

corobo 9y ago
> an overwhelming number of underwhelming options I love this phrase, it really seems to catch the problem with all these decentralised projects. Sure I could try to set up whatever matrix/status/appnet/tent decentralised service of the month happens to be on the front page of HN but also I could just not do that and use Twitter. The other thing is they all want to take over the entire domain you use them on. Either you have to use a subdomain (which means you can't use your cool name@example.com address) or you forfeit your domain to whatever advert the software brings with it. Honestly I've just given up with them. I use Twitter, I use Facebook, I use Dropbox and I do things other than trying to run my own versions of those in my free time
- cyphar 9y ago
  > The other thing is they all want to take over the entire domain you use them on That's not true. Many such projects use /.well-known/ to provide the ability to redirect from the root example.com identity to where you should actually go to send things.
  - corobo 9y ago
    Could you source that? I'm not saying it's incorrect I've just not come across it in these things yet. That'd be the key to getting me on the decentralised bandwagon
    - Arathorn 9y ago
      Matrix doesn't take over the whole domain; right now you use an SRV record to point to the right place and we're planning to switch to .well-known URLs. source: i work on Matrix.
      - corobo 9y ago
        Ah apologies mate I was thinking of Mastodon when I wrote the original comment
      - cyphar 9y ago
        As an aside, what is the current status of identities in the matrix fediverse? Last time I checked it seemed like the centralisation of identities was "punted" on and you have an OStatus/WebFinger-like system where identities are tied to a particular server.
    - cyphar 9y ago
      NextCloud / ownCloud have federation but the WebDav links are described in /.well-known/. I haven't installed Mastodon so I can't speak to it, but since WebFinger uses /.well-known/ I would be surprised if Mastodon did anything else[1]. [1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7033#page-8 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7033#page-8

Would you consider writing a blog post on all the tech stacks you tried and how it panned out? I'm kind of in the same place as you and there is just an overwhelming number of underwhelming options.

corobo 9y ago

> an overwhelming number of underwhelming options I love this phrase, it really seems to catch the problem with all these decentralised projects. Sure I could try to set up whatever matrix/status/appnet/tent decentralised service of the month happens to be on the front page of HN but also I could just not do that and use Twitter. The other thing is they all want to take over the entire domain you use them on. Either you have to use a subdomain (which means you can't use your cool name@example.com address) or you forfeit your domain to whatever advert the software brings with it. Honestly I've just given up with them. I use Twitter, I use Facebook, I use Dropbox and I do things other than trying to run my own versions of those in my free time

cyphar 9y ago
> The other thing is they all want to take over the entire domain you use them on That's not true. Many such projects use /.well-known/ to provide the ability to redirect from the root example.com identity to where you should actually go to send things.
- corobo 9y ago
  Could you source that? I'm not saying it's incorrect I've just not come across it in these things yet. That'd be the key to getting me on the decentralised bandwagon
  - Arathorn 9y ago
    Matrix doesn't take over the whole domain; right now you use an SRV record to point to the right place and we're planning to switch to .well-known URLs. source: i work on Matrix.
    - corobo 9y ago
      Ah apologies mate I was thinking of Mastodon when I wrote the original comment
    - cyphar 9y ago
      As an aside, what is the current status of identities in the matrix fediverse? Last time I checked it seemed like the centralisation of identities was "punted" on and you have an OStatus/WebFinger-like system where identities are tied to a particular server.
  - cyphar 9y ago
    NextCloud / ownCloud have federation but the WebDav links are described in /.well-known/. I haven't installed Mastodon so I can't speak to it, but since WebFinger uses /.well-known/ I would be surprised if Mastodon did anything else[1]. [1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7033#page-8 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7033#page-8