Seems like a more sustainable method would be to create cryptographic web rings. A series of authors or sites that are in the web ring or “club” that link and s

Seems like a more sustainable method would be to create cryptographic web rings. A series of authors or sites that are in the web ring or “club” that link and share and display each other's content. Each site has a cryptographic key that validates they’re in the club. The next step would be to make these cryptographic keys a symbol of pride or brand. This way you don’t need a single `cohost` brand to gather around, each separate space acts on its own. Yes like federation now. Only my club has mastodons and blogs and what not. Then your club can take approach of “we allow anyone” or “you have to be vetted to join”. Replacing Facebook, Instagram, et al. Is a different game than setting up a “cool blog host space”. People use those tools to be apart of their community, share photos of their families and find local places to buy used. They use a false promise of “everyone here is real just look at their real name we require” as an identifier that you are in the club. If you don’t give these spaces free form identities and some sense of exclusion, however open, you’ll always suffer the tragedy of the commons without big money treating your users like cattle. And for some reason people love being treated like cattle. As for analytics, give me analytics about my stuff. Do not create a gaming system out of it by sharing that data with uninvolved parties.