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I have an idea to replace posting on Facebook/Twitter where you sell your and your readers privacy with posting on your own blog. To achieve this, blogging pla

I have an idea to replace posting on Facebook/Twitter where you sell your and your readers privacy with posting on your own blog. To achieve this, blogging platforms (I am aiming to WordPress right now) must remove the obstacles in user experience: people stopped blogging and switched to Facebook because posting on FB has more profits: it is easier (just visit front page of FB instead of logging to wp-admin and doing next steps), you have all content in one place (FB wall shows your posts and your friends posts etc) and tickles your ego (you immediately get likes and shares while on your blog barely anyone comment your post) I am working on plugins and tools to remove this distance: front-end editor box for your blog ( https://github.com/kkarpieszuk/Editor-Box https://github.com/kkarpieszuk/Editor-Box ), plugin to subscribe to other blogs and see their content as part of your blog, plugin to give local likes for posts, broadcast your content to other blogs... Everyone will have kind of their own Facebook on their own WordPress blog. I am WP plugin developer as my main job but all above I am doing in my free time as a hobby. If anyone is interested in collaborating to make the network a bit less occupied by big techs, please reach me here https://github.com/kkarpieszuk/Editor-Box https://github.com/kkarpieszuk/Editor-Box (create an issue or pull request if you have an idea how to extend this plugin) or find my email address at https://muzungu.pl/o-mnie/ https://muzungu.pl/o-mnie/ (in Polish but you will easily find the address)

rglullis 5y ago
Aren't you reinventing ActivityPub?
- toomim 5y ago
  Or indieweb. Or making improvements somehow?
  - kkarpkkarp 5y ago
    thank you for those terms. I was sure I am not the first one who had this idea but I didn't know any projects. Now I know and I definitely try to join the forces with them.
minhmeoke 5y ago
One consideration is that if you remove all barriers to entry, your ecosystem might quickly become overrun with bots and spam. If you're interested in a less commercialized, blogging-oriented niche of the Internet, you might also want to look into Gemini which is a new, simpler internet protocol that is incompatible with HTTP by design, and primarily designed for sharing textual data rather than rich media content. So it's like a modern effort to create a niche in the Internet similar to the Usenet/BBS systems and Web 1.0 era of the past. Browse through a proxy like: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/ https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/ It's kind of neat in that it results in a small, self-selecting, geeky community with some weird, quirky stuff that you don't see elsewhere on the modern web, for example, discussion of the week about topics like broccoli, or 5 questions of the month among total strangers: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2021-12-11-broccoli-a-verb-in-need-of-meaning.gmi https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2021-... https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/soviet.circumlunar.space/wholesomedonut/gemlog/reply-to-broccoli.gmi https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/soviet.circumlunar.space/whole... https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/geminispace.info/search%3Fbroccoli https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/geminispace.info/search%3Fbroc...

rglullis 5y ago

Aren't you reinventing ActivityPub?

toomim 5y ago
Or indieweb. Or making improvements somehow?
- kkarpkkarp 5y ago
  thank you for those terms. I was sure I am not the first one who had this idea but I didn't know any projects. Now I know and I definitely try to join the forces with them.

minhmeoke 5y ago

One consideration is that if you remove all barriers to entry, your ecosystem might quickly become overrun with bots and spam. If you're interested in a less commercialized, blogging-oriented niche of the Internet, you might also want to look into Gemini which is a new, simpler internet protocol that is incompatible with HTTP by design, and primarily designed for sharing textual data rather than rich media content. So it's like a modern effort to create a niche in the Internet similar to the Usenet/BBS systems and Web 1.0 era of the past. Browse through a proxy like: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/ https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/ It's kind of neat in that it results in a small, self-selecting, geeky community with some weird, quirky stuff that you don't see elsewhere on the modern web, for example, discussion of the week about topics like broccoli, or 5 questions of the month among total strangers: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2021-12-11-broccoli-a-verb-in-need-of-meaning.gmi https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2021-... https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/soviet.circumlunar.space/wholesomedonut/gemlog/reply-to-broccoli.gmi https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/soviet.circumlunar.space/whole... https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/geminispace.info/search%3Fbroccoli https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/geminispace.info/search%3Fbroc...