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The IndieWeb movement is pushing the constructs built on top of the web into a decentralized form using self hosted content and webhook notifications. Example:
by donpdonp 13y ago
The IndieWeb movement is pushing the constructs built on top of the web into a decentralized form using self hosted content and webhook notifications.
Example: Comments on a blog post.
Given a blog post at URL A, comments are created by posting a note on your own site at URL B, then using a webhook to notify the blog that such a comment exists.
Your content cannot go away as long as you host it, and its not dependent on the blog's cooperation to be available, just to be findable.
http://indiewebcamp.com/comment http://indiewebcamp.com/comment
- GrinningFool 13y agoDoesn't that introduce the reverse problem though? That makes someone else's content depend on the availability of your content - in the example of comments, the context and any intermediate replies can be lost if you stop hosting them. Leaving not a record of a conversation behind, but only indecipherable fragments. A quick scan through the page at the link posted also seems to indicate the protocol depends a lot on content providers being well behaved. I'm assuming that somewhere in there there is handling for when content simply goes away with notification?
- pekk 13y agoWhy can't your blog periodically verify its links? It seems obvious that you can't depend on notifications that something is no longer available
- edoloughlin 13y agothe protocol depends a lot on content providers being well behaved I think this is true of existing content, except there are much fewer content providers and there's no protocol.
- riffraff 13y agoso, trackbacks?
- jeena 13y agoOh yeah the good old parsing HTML-comments for weird SGML data, this worked out well in the past ;) It is good for everybody that we tried something like that in the past but please don't bring it back.