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cimoreneAt the end of a Very Long Post about the coming EU legislation, Article 13, @limblogs posited that fandom is going to have to build our next platform ourselves. She encouraged programmers and coders to jump in and posted a few links and followed up in a more posts. (On the topic of the next fannish platform migration, I recommend following @limblogs if you’re curious/tech savvy, or @cesperanza perhaps if you find that going over your head and want updates that won’t.)
I’m not exactly the target audience (nothing beyond CSS and basic linux stuff) but there were some links marked easier to understand and little in the way of summary, so I read it all to gather what I could. This is what it looks like to me:
Apparently right now the technology exists (dat protocol and the beaker browser) for people to make and host their own websites on their own computers using new peer-to-peer technology. This would mean that eg your friends can download your website directly from your computer (when it’s online) and they can choose to re-seed it like with bit torrent which allows sites to be kept up even when the original creator isn’t online. (This is end-to-end encrypted, but there’s no getting around that the connection is directly to your computer for the data. Some people have security concerns. Other people explain these away but I didn’t understand it yet - maybe with a lot more reading.) There’s also hashbase, a free service that does that seeding-when-your-computer-is-off thing for you.
Beaker browser has basic website creation tools, and neocities, a modern reincarnation of geocities, is offering free personal webpages much like geocities did in the old days, as well as what they call “fun html tutorials”.
So, with a little help and tutorials and so on, right away, without any more coding,** these things could give everybody a personal webpage of their content, like the era of, well, geocities come again. You could use a site like this to write a personal blog or an edited “zine” or fest of thematically related content, or to share art or gifsets as well, but they don’t have the user friendliness of Tumblr, or even of LJ/DW.
In the late 90s-turn of the millennium, when we actually were all spread out over individual private websites, the social/community functions of fandom often took place over email mailing lists, or bulletin boards and chatrooms. To possibly address those needs... somewhat, there are 3 extant social networking... thingies in the links: scuttlebutt (has been described as facebook-like; requires a client app; has some Issues like being tied to one single device), fritter (a twitter clone used with beaker), and rotonde (also accessed via beaker). There’s also reportedly an IRC-like chat feature in Scuttlebutt (i.e. operating specifically with the friends-of-friends network you create).
(I fully intend to attempt to install all of these and test the stuff out along with the other people who are trying, but I haven’t had time yet.)
archive copy for future reference of Tumblr post here
I’m not exactly the target audience (nothing beyond CSS and basic linux stuff) but there were some links marked easier to understand and little in the way of summary, so I read it all to gather what I could. This is what it looks like to me:
Apparently right now the technology exists (dat protocol and the beaker browser) for people to make and host their own websites on their own computers using new peer-to-peer technology. This would mean that eg your friends can download your website directly from your computer (when it’s online) and they can choose to re-seed it like with bit torrent which allows sites to be kept up even when the original creator isn’t online. (This is end-to-end encrypted, but there’s no getting around that the connection is directly to your computer for the data. Some people have security concerns. Other people explain these away but I didn’t understand it yet - maybe with a lot more reading.) There’s also hashbase, a free service that does that seeding-when-your-computer-is-off thing for you.
Beaker browser has basic website creation tools, and neocities, a modern reincarnation of geocities, is offering free personal webpages much like geocities did in the old days, as well as what they call “fun html tutorials”.
So, with a little help and tutorials and so on, right away, without any more coding,** these things could give everybody a personal webpage of their content, like the era of, well, geocities come again. You could use a site like this to write a personal blog or an edited “zine” or fest of thematically related content, or to share art or gifsets as well, but they don’t have the user friendliness of Tumblr, or even of LJ/DW.
In the late 90s-turn of the millennium, when we actually were all spread out over individual private websites, the social/community functions of fandom often took place over email mailing lists, or bulletin boards and chatrooms. To possibly address those needs... somewhat, there are 3 extant social networking... thingies in the links: scuttlebutt (has been described as facebook-like; requires a client app; has some Issues like being tied to one single device), fritter (a twitter clone used with beaker), and rotonde (also accessed via beaker). There’s also reportedly an IRC-like chat feature in Scuttlebutt (i.e. operating specifically with the friends-of-friends network you create).
(I fully intend to attempt to install all of these and test the stuff out along with the other people who are trying, but I haven’t had time yet.)
archive copy for future reference of Tumblr post here
