We need a light switch for static hosting

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by harryvederci • 4 years ago

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rini172• 4 years ago

It's too easy to lose a domain, though. I had a decent one with email forwarding set up just in case something happens to my gmail, gave that email address to everyone...and lost it when i neglected to pay stuff for months cause of health problems. Now I have to beg some squatter to get it back.

harryvederci6• 4 years ago

Oh man, that sucks. But with people randomly getting cancelled on these platforms though, I guess it's still less risky to get a domain?

rini172• 4 years ago

Depends. We have GDPR here so at least I can request all my data from these platforms. If I screw something up on my server or domain, noone can help me.

marbu• 4 years ago

Someone can still try to sue you over trademark or copyright infringement. That said, it's quite harder for the one using it against you compared to sheer AI system flagging your account, as it requires paying lawyers a going to a court.

tenebrisalietum• 4 years ago

they could have an endpoint “/following.json”, containing an array of urls from people whose stuff they like to read.

I'm game. This will work with Gemini too. Literally just an array of URLs? Don't you want at least a name for the array? Or does that make it took complex?

    { "following": [
      "https://news.ycombinator.com", 
      "https://aol.com"
      ]
     }

dreamlessfate2• 4 years ago

This is just RSS. It was released 23 years ago.

It was very popular and a big part of the web.

The model that harryvederci is describing is exactly what the internet looked like prior to the rise of Facebook/Twitter, during the dawn of Web 2.0.

Everyone had their own blog, on their own site. And you could curate your own feed of people you wanted to following using RSS feeds.

harryvederci6• 4 years ago

Thanks for providing some historical context. I'm familiar with RSS in the sense of providing a way to publish my own updates, I do that on willfennel.com as well.

I'm also using it (with newsboat) to "subscribe" to RSS feeds myself, but those aren't shared anywhere by me currently.

What I'm not aware of is what you're saying, that RSS is a way to let people know what content I'm consuming.

The model that harryvederci is describing is exactly what the internet looked like prior to the rise of Facebook/Twitter, during the dawn of Web 2.0.

How was the "following" part of it implemented back then? Where would I find out what blogs you were following, if I looked at your own RSS feed?

harryvederci6• 4 years ago

Love the enthusiasm!

I guess the "following" keyword could be helpful in case additional information would be needed. Maybe "blocking"? :-)

On the other hand, then it's already becoming a potentially bloated idea with infinite expandability, which also would make the endpoint name weird or redundant. Both options have pros and cons, I guess.

It was mainly meant as an idea, though, just as an example of how this type of data could be shared easily without needing a megacorp hosted platform.

We need a light switch for static hosting

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