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.
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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…)
The real super-power feature missing from Roam Research?
My public Roam Research notebook being able to converse with someone elses’ (or any other page on the internet for that matter). Webmention support might solve this.
#RoamCult
(See also related conversation at https://boffosocko.com/2020/12/09/55782252/)