Hello everyone! In my search for a new platform, I'm finding that it may be easier to look for a particular community first and judge the platform second. I'm looking for discourse around Programming and Software Development. If anyone knows of such communities on alternative social media sites or forums, please do share. Preferably not a forum in the Q/A format such as Stack Overflow, but rather general discussion and resource sharing.
I hope you're all having a wonderful day and not too stressed about finding a new home! Remember, we still have 10 months; plenty of time to spread out.
I hope you're all having a wonderful day and not too stressed about finding a new home! Remember, we still have 10 months; plenty of time to spread out.
If you have an account on any federated node, you should be able to get global search results. I am not sure about the other network types but if you have an account on a Friendica node, you can search for contacts by interest or search for community forums using the ! symbol before the search term.
ReplyDeleteGet a website and go #IndieWeb. You are right community more important than the platform.
ReplyDeleteJoining a new silo, even open source, will have same result.
Nobody but you can shut down your own website.
Greg Mcverry The beauty of federated solutions is interconnections with others. You can host your own federated node, instance, pod, channel, hub, etc and connect. No one can shut you down or keep you from your content.
ReplyDeleteTell that to folks who were on the witches.town instance.
ReplyDeleteor those who believe it was right to chase Will Wheaton off of Mastodon compared to those who felt it was mob rule.
How about what happened with the split at social.coop?
Many instances close no different than Google+...well the data is more portable but still somebody can shut down a fedivese instance anytime.
Instead I turn my website into a fediverse instance myself and folks can follow jgmac1106@jgregorymcverry.com
No despot can kick me off my own website.
Greg Mcverry that is exactly the point. Just like you are doing, everyone has control over their own nodes. If you have an account on someone else's node and don't like their policies, you can go to another or make your own. If someone kicks you off their node you can join another or make your own. If you allow people to join your node, you decide what your rules are. Everyone does their own thing but no one can be kept out of the federated web space by design and it will exist as long as users exist.
ReplyDeleteI guess I just don't understand wny we need a platform to be these nodes.
ReplyDeleteWe can just do this from our websites.
The web the way it was meant to be.
Greg Mcverry perhaps you can elaborate what you mean by your website versus a node that is federated.
ReplyDeleteSo I have a website. I also have a page of people I follow https://jgregogymcverry.com/following
ReplyDeleteI have all of these people in my reader and can comment on their blogs, like, repost, reply etc all from my reader.
This experience is very much like a Google+ environment.
I suspect we will have public and private groups solved >2 months.
You will use your website url to login and see post published on other people's sites that are shared only with your group.
I can also use ActivityPub or OStatus to make my website an instance of the fediverse.
This stuff is REALLY cool. Stop by chat.indieweb.org - #indieweb 2018-10-16 or indiewebcamp.slack.com or #indiewweb on freenode on IRC (all three places connected together).
Greg Mcverry Indie Web looks really interesting! So, basically I can spin up my own website, host it wherever I want, and register the URL on Indie Web so I can discover other people and vise versa?
ReplyDeleteYes and I can help. Shelenn Ayres still plan to support ActivityPub people matter more than a perfect API.
ReplyDeleteCheck this out: https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/21
Getting close to doing it all from our websites and still being in Fediverse
github.com - translate following, both directions · Issue #21 · snarfed/bridgy-fed
Kyle you don't register. We don't want your data. If you want turn key micro.blog is $5 a month.
ReplyDeleteYou could also just do blogger and WordPress.com with webmentions.
Shared hosting options include WordPress.org or Known.
Developmers may choose to DIY and use open standards to create something new.
Greg Mcverry It's interesting for sure. What I would like to see are specs, especially with regards to encryption of sensitive data. Do you have a link to that info?
ReplyDeleteNo. I would have to search the wiki. Everything on my blog is CC-By-sa so I haven't had the use case.
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