@tYou know what's cheaper than a cell #? A domain name. We're going to make it more useful too. #indieweb #iamnotanumber (ttk.me t4Sq3) (twitter.com/_/status/396442008493244416)
@drawnalismYes @adrianshort that is a problem of outsourcing your means of expression to a third-party IT platform which can change its techniques. ^MB
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@matroRT @t: You know what's cheaper than a cell #? A domain name. We're going to make it more useful too. #indieweb #iamnotanumber (ttk.me t4Sq3) (twitter.com/_/status/396670274781081600)
@janlRT @t: You know what's cheaper than a cell #? A domain name. We're going to make it more useful too. #indieweb #iamnotanumber (ttk.me t4Sq3) (twitter.com/_/status/396670852403843072)
JeenaI kind of think that users are afraid of the word gnu in project names. GNU kind of sounds like it is only usable on the console and if you're a UNIX guru ;)
snarfedsure. i'm not advocating ostatus, just mentioned it re your q that activitystreams "doesn’t cover how to actually get sites to work together to do stuff"
Jeenayeah even tent is less product-centered/monoculture then those, they at least have this idea of a protocol and many implementations of servers and clients
Jeenathe thing with indieweb is, I had a look at the whole wiki and I don't see anything like ostatus or tent, it is basically a big wiki with quite a lot of information about stuff but nothing one could take and implement to for example do stuff you do on twitter right now
barnabywaltersJeena: barryfrost.com did — I don’t think he’s ever logged into IRC, but he built a top-notch indieweb site just from the stuff on the wiki
Jeenasomething like a community, kind of like with twitter or facebook or flickr where you could publish your stuff and get some kind of notifications about stuff other people published
snarfedfrom what i can tell, the next part - actually transforming webmentions to the proprietary API calls and vice versa - still looks like green field. let me know if you know otherwise
JeenaI was quite happy on Tent until they decided that federation/distribution is low priority and I wasn't able to use my domain and host my own server anymore
Jeenathat never happened and two weeks ago we were told that they have more important things to do then to make it possible for us two to use the domains we used until then
Jeenaand it was just the last drop for us two self hosters, the thing is they're too young and unexperienced to manage a community. Perhaps one day when everything is ready and all bugs are fixed, perhaps then it will work better.
Jeenathe only thing which makes it worse is that I invested very much time in writing a Desktop client for Linux, OS X and Windows for it which I can't use anymore ^^