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> We believe that everyone should have the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers. I can't wait for this to mean what it u

> We believe that everyone should have the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers. I can't wait for this to mean what it used to mean: owning a domain and putting up a website.

quotemstr 9y ago
With registrars being as censorious as they've been lately?
- tehwebguy 9y ago
  How censorious have they been lately?
  - patrickaljord 9y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer#Site_hosting_issues_after_the_2017_Unite_the_Right_rally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer#Site_hosting...
    - tehwebguy 9y ago
      So these 5 or 10 companies don’t want to host this one website. I guess “Not very censorious” or “Not enough data” is the answer.
      - patrickaljord 9y ago
        It's not 5 or 10, every single domain provider have banned them so far. Still happening today.
- imron 9y ago
  Less censorious than Twitter.
riffic 9y ago
You can do this today; install and maintain an OStatus compliant app on your own domain (gnusocial, mastodon, et cetera)
- crabasa 9y ago
  I spent a few minutes Googling "OStatus spec". This Medium post [1] on the first page of results sums the prospects of this working nicely: > Federated social networks such as Mastodon and GNUSocial communicate using a protocol known as ‘OStatus’. This is partly documented in an unfinished specification (the OStatus 1.0 Draft 2.0 document), and is otherwise defined by some parties as a non-living anti-standard which is ‘whatever it has been historically’, or the exact opposite ‘whatever it needs to be’, usually further qualified as ‘well, whatever my software, the one true use case, thinks it needs to be’. [1] https://medium.com/@Rushyo/on-supporting-content-types-other-than-html-in-ostatus-a5b675c1b3a3?source=linkShare-ad5c954d0329-1511070833 https://medium.com/@Rushyo/on-supporting-content-types-other...
  - tscs37 9y ago
    Mastodon has recently enabled Activity Streams 2.0 (I'm fairly certain 2.0) which is a W3C Standard. I believe the move was founded on arguments of "OStatus is a tad unflexible for our needs" or something along those lines.
ryandrake 9y ago
I love it! One happy-talk sentence that contradicts the rest of the article, wherein all the barriers are listed in great detail.

quotemstr 9y ago

With registrars being as censorious as they've been lately?

tehwebguy 9y ago
How censorious have they been lately?
- patrickaljord 9y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer#Site_hosting_issues_after_the_2017_Unite_the_Right_rally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer#Site_hosting...
  - tehwebguy 9y ago
    So these 5 or 10 companies don’t want to host this one website. I guess “Not very censorious” or “Not enough data” is the answer.
    - patrickaljord 9y ago
      It's not 5 or 10, every single domain provider have banned them so far. Still happening today.
imron 9y ago
Less censorious than Twitter.

riffic 9y ago

You can do this today; install and maintain an OStatus compliant app on your own domain (gnusocial, mastodon, et cetera)

crabasa 9y ago
I spent a few minutes Googling "OStatus spec". This Medium post [1] on the first page of results sums the prospects of this working nicely: > Federated social networks such as Mastodon and GNUSocial communicate using a protocol known as ‘OStatus’. This is partly documented in an unfinished specification (the OStatus 1.0 Draft 2.0 document), and is otherwise defined by some parties as a non-living anti-standard which is ‘whatever it has been historically’, or the exact opposite ‘whatever it needs to be’, usually further qualified as ‘well, whatever my software, the one true use case, thinks it needs to be’. [1] https://medium.com/@Rushyo/on-supporting-content-types-other-than-html-in-ostatus-a5b675c1b3a3?source=linkShare-ad5c954d0329-1511070833 https://medium.com/@Rushyo/on-supporting-content-types-other...
- tscs37 9y ago
  Mastodon has recently enabled Activity Streams 2.0 (I'm fairly certain 2.0) which is a W3C Standard. I believe the move was founded on arguments of "OStatus is a tad unflexible for our needs" or something along those lines.

ryandrake 9y ago

I love it! One happy-talk sentence that contradicts the rest of the article, wherein all the barriers are listed in great detail.