Just published an interview with @cwebber , one of my very favorite people in this space. We have had the honor of eating sushi and burritos together at various times.
@deadsuperhero @cwebber very interesting! but the irony of posting federated social networking news on medium is just killing me here
@technomancy @cwebber Your complaint is well-documented.
I am investigating an alternative solution, but it has to be something that federates using ActivityPub, so...it could be a while.
I kind of want it to be a platform that I build myself, which is part of why this is a slow process. 😛
@deadsuperhero @technomancy @cwebber oooh, finally, I've been talking about a federated blogging and commenting platform for years. But of course too lazy to implement it myself. ;)
@rysiek @deadsuperhero @technomancy @cwebber How would y'all feel about one that by default doesn't even have a public face to it? There's currently nothing out there that's like "decentralized Dreamwidth" where you can share things with just some subset of the world. I think public social media causes a *lot* of problems.
I've been noodling over some ideas here: https://github.com/timmc/cavern/blob/master/doc/ideas.md -- working name "cavern".
@rysiek @deadsuperhero @technomancy @cwebber Like, obviously you could designate a subset of your posts to be totally public, and have a nice static blog made from them, but there would be non-public posts as well...
@varx @rysiek @deadsuperhero @technomancy There's nothing about ActivityPub that says posts should be public by default. That's an implementation UI/UX decision. And yes, whether it's a good idea to do that is debatable, and dependent on what kind of community structure you're trying to build.
