A fair independent streaming platform
Over on my music site I wrote a bit about the current state of streaming providers, specifically to encourage people to go back to buying their music and listening on local devices.
The problem with this line of thinking is that people really want the convenience of being able to listen to all the music, all the time, anywhere.
A thought’s been pinging around in my brain for a while about how this could be done differently, without falling into the trap of having a single service for people to have to subscribe to and put their trust in: what if we could make an IndieWeb-style streaming platform?
⭐️ RSS is (not) dead (yet)
❤️ Twitterlike is a Bad Shape Notes
Like: Twitterlike is a Bad Shape
As I’ve been saying for years, the problem with Twitter isn’t that it’s centralized, but that it’s Twitter.
This post goes into some great details about what that means.
⭐️ Why you’ll leave X (as well as Instagram and all the other private platforms)
❤️ indieweb-bashblog: a single script SSG with Webmentions and more Notes
Like: indieweb-bashblog: a single script SSG with Webmentions and more
I like when things keep it simple, and I’m always elated to see webmention.js being used in the wild.
Too many ideas, not enough time or energy
My brain is constantly exploding with things that I want to get done but my body keeps telling me “no.”
❤️ Beyond the Wikipedia Silo Suggestions for Your Next RetroWeb Site
⭐️ Meet Feedle a New RSS Feed Search Engine Notes
Bookmarked: Meet Feedle a New RSS Feed Search Engine
This search engine seems pretty cool. So far the catalog appears to only have human-submitted feeds, though. I’ve already submitted a couple of mine, and hopefully more folks get on board with it.
(via IndieWeb News)
💬 Re: I wish there were a better story around replying to blogs Notes
In reply to: Re: I wish there were a better story around replying to blogs
I agree that this is a massive pain point and it’s something I’ve talked about a lot on this blog.
At present, I use a combination of 1 (via isso) and 4 (via webmention.io + webmention.js). The integration on 4 is also helped by using Bridgy and Bridgy Fed to receive webmentions from Mastodon and many of the silos, which strikes an okay balance for me, although it’s far from perfect.
One of the biggest problems with webmention, IMO, is that it doesn’t provide a good story for protected/private responses to protected/private entries. Ticket Auth might eventually provide that, but adoption of that protocol has been slow-going, to say the least, and there’s still open questions about how to actually manage the credentials in an unsupervised flow (especially when using a third-party webmention endpoint). An older WIP called AutoAuth had a much better story for that use case but the protocol was incredibly complicated and implementations never progressed beyond the proof-of-concept stage.
For me, isso as my primary comment system remains the least-bad option of a lot of bad options.