The First Federated Indieweb Comment Thread

http://tantek.com/2013/113/b1/first-federated-indieweb-comment-thread

by aaronpk • 13 years ago

45 22 13 years ago

chipsy• 13 years ago

Context?

eschnou2• 13 years ago

See indiewebcamp[1] for more details. In a nutshell, #indieweb is a movement which aims at enabling users to 'own their content' instead of using 'silos' for social communications. Making the social web work more like email (I don't need a GMail account to send a message to someone on GMail).

[1] http://indiewebcamp.com/

krapp2• 13 years ago

So we've moved away from self-hosting to third party content hosting like google, disqus, facebook, etc, and now the pendulum's swinging back to self-hosting? Is that what this is about?

If so, i'm all for it.

mschuster914• 13 years ago

How should a blog author protect himself from legal responsibility?

Just consider this (perfectly valid!) case: I, a German blog owner, blog about immigration issues and my blog post attracts a couple of US neonazis which use the Hitler salute, which is legal in the US, but forbidden in Germany.

As I am not in control of the comment server, I cannot delete the offending comment and protect myself from legal problems (it's a criminal offence after all).

Obviously the same problem arises for copyright violations - anyone remember the spread of the HDCP masterkey?

aaronpk2• 13 years ago

The owner of the website (in this case eschnou) is always able to choose what to display on the web page. Just like you can remove unwanted comments from a Wordpress comment thread, you can choose which "indieweb" comments to display.

mschuster914• 13 years ago

Ah, okay. And how does comment federation protect against (SEO) spam? If everything runs automated, naturally there cannot be anything like a captcha or other anti-bot measure in the system.

DennisP2• 13 years ago

People seem to get by using Facebook comments and Disqus.

wmf2• 13 years ago

The point of this Federated Indieweb thing is to move comments (and all other content) out of the Web 2.0 silos like Facebook and Disqus because those companies aren't trustworthy stewards of our data.

tommorris• 13 years ago

People got by with AOL.

jjsz2• 13 years ago

OT: If Storytlr were to integrate Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, Google+ and all the other popular sites as a POSSE scheme beisdes Twitter, it'll be the next open source buffer-like solution.

jjsz2• 13 years ago

Btw, this goes great with the concept of @hoodiehq, @ownCloudcom, @remotestorage, @unhosted, @MozillaPersona, BitTorrent Sync, where all your content is on your computer so if the electricity goes out, it doesn't matter.

The First Federated Indieweb Comment Thread

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