| Time |
S |
Nick |
Message |
| 00:28 |
|
pdurbin |
Sure. It may be that some day I care passionately about both self hosting and e2e encryption. So I'm happy that there's already working software for this. :) |
| 00:29 |
|
pdurbin |
Self hosting of stuff that's more complicated that static websites I mean. :) |
| 05:50 |
|
prologic |
sure |
| 05:50 |
|
prologic |
that's actually something that's pretty important to me |
| 05:50 |
|
prologic |
I want self-hosted |
| 05:50 |
|
prologic |
But it has to be really easy to do so |
| 05:50 |
|
prologic |
or the "self hosting" part if kinda worthless |
| 07:58 |
|
prologic |
https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/06/01/0356224/purism-introduces-a-new-social-network-named-librem-social?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29 |
| 10:35 |
|
pdurbin |
It's funny how if you go to the Librem Social homepage or the Twitter homepage when you aren't logged in that you have no indication of public tweets or toots. All you get is a signup screen. |
| 11:17 |
|
prologic |
I too find that a little funny |
| 11:17 |
|
prologic |
Also even funnier is that Librem seems to be a re-branding of Mastadon |
| 11:17 |
|
prologic |
It appears according to sources and digging of my own that it *is* just Mastadon |
| 11:31 |
|
pdurbin |
Yeah, seems like it. |
| 11:33 |
|
pdurbin |
When I joined Mastodon, I picked the biggest server, the one run by the creator. I figured I'd get the best experience that way. But the idea is that there should be lots of servers out there. I probably should have picked a smaller server but I didn't know which one to pick. |
| 11:52 |
|
prologic |
fair enough |
| 11:52 |
|
prologic |
sadly standing one up seems to be a bit involved :/ |
| 12:01 |
|
pdurbin |
It wasn't too hard to stand up that IRC server you wrote. :) |
| 12:07 |
|
prologic |
no it wasn't :) |
| 12:09 |
|
pdurbin |
Do we still want whatever openknot was about? |
| 12:10 |
|
pdurbin |
"OpenKnot is an attempt to build a service that will allow everyone to use their preferred user agents and paradigms to participate in communication communities, taking some of the best ideas from email, mailing lists, usenet, zephyr, IRC, XMPP, various kinds of web forums, SMS and more." |
| 12:13 |
|
pdurbin |
Lately I've been thinking that I don't care so much what tool was used to send the message. I think I'd like to treat all the messages as data and build a search index across the various services that were used. For example, an open source project might use a mailing list and Gitter. Index all messages as data and make them more easily found. |
| 12:17 |
|
pdurbin |
That is to say, I'm completly on board with letting people use whatever user agents or clients or protocols they want. If you like email better than a forum, fine, go for it. If you like Gitter, fine. But index all of it so that later you can find the discussions you're interested in and who has been having them. Who to talk to. |
| 12:17 |
|
pdurbin |
I started writing this up in a google doc the other week but it's still pretty muddled. |
| 12:18 |
|
pdurbin |
I talked it out on Gitter and it made sense to my co-conspirator. :) |
| 12:26 |
|
prologic |
yeah well |
| 12:26 |
|
prologic |
lately I'm not convinced something like OpenKnot could even work |
| 12:27 |
|
prologic |
there are quite a few technical obstacles; e.g: other platforms allowing an openknot instance to post on someone else's behalf (identify & auth on thing syou don't control) |
| 12:27 |
|
prologic |
not to mnetion traction would be challenging |
| 12:27 |
|
pdurbin |
I have my doubts too but did you see this issue I opened recently? https://github.com/openknot/openknot/issues/8 |
| 12:29 |
|
prologic |
NO I did not I'll have a read |
| 12:29 |
|
pdurbin |
Amy has been travelling but I hope she can join us in here some day. :) |
