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My Initial Thoughts on Bluesky's AT Protocol(havenweb.org)
30 points by mawise 4y ago|34 comments
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Bluesky AT Protocol(blueskyweb.xyz)
7 points by mawise 4y ago|0 comments
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by mawise 4y ago
I saw the screenshot for Firefox View and at first I thought they were bringing back RSS! How slick would it be for Firefox View not to just show you the list of recent sites you've visited, but give you a preview of the _current cont
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by mawise 4y ago
This os great! I recognize a lot of the challenges I ran into (or decided to ignore!) When building the reader for https://havenweb.org . I had a particular chuckle at "#just for sorting", remembering feeds that kept
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by mawise 4y ago
There's a nifty tool called Bridgy that helps with this--it's out of the IndieWeb community with their POSSE model: Post on Own Site Syndicate Elsewhere https://brid.gy/
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by mawise 4y ago
Facebook brought us in with the promise of keeping in touch with friends, but the incentives are to "engagement at all costs". I'm hoping that if we can offer an alternative that lets people keep up with their friends withou
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by mawise 4y ago
You can even aubscribe to an rss feed of a subreddit, I think each has a rel="alternate" link to the feed url
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by mawise 4y ago
Haven[1] is my open-source, self-hosted side project for building exactly this (social networking based on self-hosted pages) in a privacy-first manner. There's a lot from the IndieWeb community that I want to emulate, and microformat
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Haven is now available on PikaPods(havenweb.org)
2 points by mawise 4y ago|0 comments
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by mawise 4y ago
There are things we can do to make RSS-based consumption much easier. I use an RSS browser plugin for Firefox[1] so that a feed icon shows up on any page advertising[2] a feed. The feed icon let's me subscribe to the site with 2 clic
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by mawise 4y ago
Discovery has become the one thing that our social networking overlords do and focus on. But we learned about new things before them just by talking with our peers. I think the IndieWeb's concept of a Social Reader[1] can do a great j
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by mawise 4y ago
>A closed, private space that admits no outsiders, marketers, or clout chasers, but strongly discourages developing relationships with new people or expanding one's horizons. I've been thinking about these exact tradeoffs in bu
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The big Facebook pivot arrives – Goodbye to the old feed, hello discovery engine(platformer.news)
3 points by mawise 4y ago|0 comments
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by mawise 4y ago
Generative networks are worth exploring for randomly creating things in a given category, see this recent HN post about food pictures: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32167704
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by mawise 4y ago
I hadn't heard of cohost, but there's something to be said about curation--which seems to be their proposed approach to discovery. This is a big part of the service newspapers and libraries (used to?) provide. There's an arg
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by mawise 4y ago
I started working on Haven[1] (FOSS, self-hosted alternative to FB) because of privacy concerns with centralized social media, but the more I explored the space, the more I felt it was important for the mental-health and societal stability
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by mawise 4y ago
Related reading: https://startyourownisp.com/
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We're Building the New Internet – Decentralised and Autonomous(safenetwork.tech)
8 points by mawise 4y ago|3 comments
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by mawise 4y ago
This is a great read on setting up a WISP (wireless ISP)[1]. It might be US-centric, but has a lot of good resources for the process. Probably smaller-scale than what you're talking about but still a good read. [1]: https:/&#x2
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by mawise 4y ago
Another relevant book in this space is How To Break Up With Your Phone [1] [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL21618775W/How_to_Break_up_wi...
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by mawise 4y ago
There was a similar system that showed up a few months ago called blogsurf[1]. Their focus was on a new ranking algorithm, but both dato and blogsurf seem to use the RSS feed as a data aggregation API. This could be a big opportunity to c
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by mawise 4y ago
Haven is about _private_ blogging as a social media alternative. Post privately, share with your friends/family, even expose your blog with authenticated RSS. The crypto world has co-opted the term "Decentralized", but in a
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by mawise 4y ago
There's a lot of infrastructure around DNS already, it seems to be an under-discussed tool for self-soverign identity. It does depend on ICANN and domain registrars but there is lots of precedent for transferring your domain between r
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by mawise 4y ago
Haven[1] is your own platform for publishing privately when you're not trying to "build an audience" [1]: https://havenweb.org
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Images in Private RSS Feeds(havenweb.org)
2 points by mawise 4y ago|0 comments
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Images in Private RSS Feeds(havenweb.org)
1 points by mawise 4y ago|0 comments
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by mawise 4y ago
I wouldn't point the blame to the garbage truck, but I agree with your description of it as scare-bait. I would gladly accept random 25-second delays from the fire department in exchange for eliminating the 30~40k American deaths[1] e
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People in homes with handguns more likely to be killed, major study finds(theguardian.com)
16 points by mawise 4y ago|37 comments
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by mawise 4y ago
This is so hard. I bought a domain and even started paying for (non-google) email on it over a year ago. But I can't bring my self to start the painful process of migrating everything.
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by mawise 4y ago
I really like the model of "see a random X" that someone posted instead of ranking by popularity/engagement. Creates a really different experience. Imagine if Twitter showed you truly random tweets in your timeline instead

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