Reading about decentralized social media has imagining something like a giant web of independently networked Roam research-like pages where there’s a chat stream where we talk just like Twitter
— Frozen Warmth (@liminal_warmth) December 8, 2020
But also you can post, which links back to a page with longer content
I sort of like the idea of networked thought via digital commonplace books. Being able to carry on longer conversations between notebooks in a sense. It shouldn’t matter how long or short the conversation is.
I attempt to do this with my own website(s) leveraging Webmentions for the back-and-forth portions. Twitter is often just a simple notification mechanism for those who don’t have that support yet.
This feels conceptually not dissimilar to a forum
Forum, yes, a bit. But that’s centralized. I want to own the copy of my own notebook and what’s in it, but still communicate. On a forum someone else (typically) owns it and might take it down.
The other option is to use a forum or aggregation hub to aid in discovery. So we might have our own online digital notebooks but syndicate copies or links to our content to a site like indieweb.xyz where others could subscribe to a topic (similar to Reddit), but there’s still two-way conversation capable between individual users who still own and maintain all their own data without worries about corporations memory-holing it. The best of both worlds? (See https://indieweb.xyz/en/commonplace_books for a potential case in point).
Syndicated copies:
It’ll be a bit yet before I finish it, but I’ve been working at an online representation of my Obsidian notebook that would support sending/receiving webmentions. I’ve already got a TiddlyWiki that receives webmentions, though it doesn’t display them (yet)…
Syndicated copies:
It’ll be a bit yet before I finish it, but I’ve been working at an online representation of my Obsidian notebook that would support sending/receiving webmentions. I’ve already got a TiddlyWiki that receives them, though it doesn’t display them (yet)… boffosocko.com/2020/12/09/557…
I sort of like the idea of networked thought via digital commonplace books. Being able to carry on …
Forum, yes, a bit. But that’s centralized. I want to own the copy of my own notebook and what’s in it, but still communicate. On a forum someone else (typically) owns it and might take it down.
The other option is to use a forum or aggregation hub to…
(boffosocko.com/2020/12/09/557…)