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For me, what social media has over a personal website is a common identity system and access control. I would like to host my occasional posts and photos on my
by anonymous_sorry 4y ago
For me, what social media has over a personal website is a common identity system and access control.
I would like to host my occasional posts and photos on my own site. But I don't want to post everything publically.
But requiring people to sign up to my personal website is probably unreasonable. And requiring a login implies a DB of some kind, which for me transforms it from fun into work.
I'm also not going to get excited about anything that isn't self-hosted. Sooner or later every cool startup either fails or becomes successful enough that their incentives no longer align with my interests.
- tomjakubowski 4y agoA compromise solution is publishing the post to your website, without having links to it from the public side, and sharing the URL only with your audience.
- kevincox 4y agoTo be frank I don't trust my entire audience with a secret link. Someone will leak it and crawlers will find it. A link to a photo or two is fine but if they can then crawl everything it is too risky for the non-technical people in my life.
- zhte415 4y agoNot even someone leaking it. Email provider bots, chat bots, etc, will check it, and it might even end up in Bing just from there https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31892299 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31892299
- sznio 4y agoOAuth? You'll still need a DB, but at least no signups.
- pmontra 4y ago> requiring a login implies a DB of some kind If your audience could accept the basic look of it, basic auth + https will work. You can automate the creation of a new entry in the passwords file and the restart of the web server.