I do a lot of polls on my account at Mastodon. I get the same questions or requests multiple times, so I made this FAQ to make it easier to reply. Q: Why do you do so many polls? A: I like to think…
I don't mind having bigoted co-tenants. People should be allowed to make fools of themselves publicly, so long as spambots are not present to magnify their message. I also don't mind not owning the domain, as long as it's a common or reputable domain e.g. github pages or vivaldi (which offers wordpress guest accounts gratis). The reason I'm not using the latter is because I dislike wordpress' wysiwyg interface. Standard Notes' "listed" is much cleaner. i'd also use smth like writefreely.
Well, I DID write for a Free Software blog at one point. I think I'd be more interested in posting about Free Culture, Media, and possibly Cultural/Political content now (especially since I don't really have my own platform for that now).
If it's a popular site, it's a way to get more audience on what I'm writing, so that would be a factor.
I assume the scenario where someone gave me access to their blog would arise from already having a mutual relationship and shared interests. Therefore my answer is: Yes, but I certainly wouldn’t want to make any strict commitments to pumping out posts like some content mill.
if it’s a guest account on a blog that hosts topics I don’t agree with or can’t relate to, then there’s no point in me partaking. To me, it’s the same as me joining and participating in a discussion or writing a discussion topic on a bbs, forum board, discord/matrix/irc room, subreddit/lemmy thread.
Personal blogs are the best blogs. It may be that a better arrangement between two personal bloggers is to be on each other's blogrolls, perhaps with one of those article preview widgets. During the golden age of blogging, blogrolls were the usual tool for creating a social graph of bloggers and mapping communities of bloggers. Multi-author blogs seemed to be the ones shooting for "professionalism," which IMHO are the ones who ruined it for everyone by making the web about monetization. But of course I speak from a place of privilege on these and other matters.
that ticks all the same boxes. The assumption would be that I’m following the blogger because they’re an interesting person or maybe we’re IRL friends even.
I am a No, but. I might do this if it were an invitation to participate in a group blog on a topic I'm interested in -- say, for my employer or a club I belong to. Otherwise, I don't see myself using someone else's blog for my own self-expression. Too dependent on someone else. They might shut it down, or change it significantly. WordPress, in particular, is available free of charge from so many providers, I can't see why I would piggyback on someone else's instead of getting my own.
It seems almost like a landlord-tenant relationship. I think peer-to-peer networking would be nice, but the structure of the internet practically requires a static IP to have any kind of locatable presence. The host-or-be-hosted thing seems to function almost like an entry barrier. It would be nice to be able to send some kind of bat signal into the internet that would be latched on to by members of the same network, informing them that one of their peers has come online.
I'm aware that a Fediverse instance can be run with dynamic DNS. What I wonder is whether there can be, say, a mobile app (or PC utility) that, when started up, enters a network of other users of the same app, WITHOUT THERE BEING A BACKEND SOMEWHERE.
For a great many people, owning a server (which entails responsibility to maintain and keep it online) is a worse option @evan
That's partly because keeping a server online is more of a burden that it should be. But it's also partly because most people *shouldn't have to* do that, it *should* be something they can trust someone else to own and maintain.
The fact that there isn't anyone they can trust to own and maintain a server indefinitely, is the precarity.
Indefinitely is a pretty big word. Back in the dialup era, it was customary for ISPs to include a bit of space for static HTML. At first I saw it as an extraordinary value, as I figured I was paying for it, therefore I have the editorial freedom to have an ad-free website (which was important to me), but it didn't take long to figure out that it was a form of vendor lock-in, so I followed the herd to Geocities, but of course corporate eventually pulled the plug on that. So countlessly many creative, indy websites were lost to the sands of time because someone didn't/couldn't pay the hosting bill, the domain registrar bill, etc.
There should be a way for a running instance of some kind of peer software on your device to announce its presence to the network of other instances of the same, with a unique name or at least a unique address of some kind. It would be nice if the unique identifier is something one gets to keep indefinitely, and ideally not pay for. A central registry of such identifiers seems like a backend that someone would have to pay for. The question is how purely peer-to-peer it can be. Maybe each node maintains a list of other nodes that it knows about, by unique identifier, and perhaps by "last known IP address." Perhaps whatever nodes happen to have static IP would become de facto clearinghouses of such quasi-DNS type data, but of course we'd want to minimize dependence on this feature to avoid that becoming a landlord/tenant relationship.
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •Well, I DID write for a Free Software blog at one point. I think I'd be more interested in posting about Free Culture, Media, and possibly Cultural/Political content now (especially since I don't really have my own platform for that now).
If it's a popular site, it's a way to get more audience on what I'm writing, so that would be a factor.
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •I don't really want yet another account.
But, for example, I have an account on the We Distribute WordPress site.
I use that WordPress account to write articles for We Distribute.
AFAIK, there isn't a way to do that using my Mastodon account (due to the way WordPress works).
So, even though it isn't ideal (for me), I accept it.
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But, I would not want to have to create an account on a WordPress site just to write a comment.
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •To me, it’s the same as me joining and participating in a discussion or writing a discussion topic on a bbs, forum board, discord/matrix/irc room, subreddit/lemmy thread.
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •For a great many people, owning a server (which entails responsibility to maintain and keep it online) is a worse option @evan
That's partly because keeping a server online is more of a burden that it should be. But it's also partly because most people *shouldn't have to* do that, it *should* be something they can trust someone else to own and maintain.
The fact that there isn't anyone they can trust to own and maintain a server indefinitely, is the precarity.
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in reply to bignose • •Indefinitely is a pretty big word. Back in the dialup era, it was customary for ISPs to include a bit of space for static HTML. At first I saw it as an extraordinary value, as I figured I was paying for it, therefore I have the editorial freedom to have an ad-free website (which was important to me), but it didn't take long to figure out that it was a form of vendor lock-in, so I followed the herd to Geocities, but of course corporate eventually pulled the plug on that. So countlessly many creative, indy websites were lost to the sands of time because someone didn't/couldn't pay the hosting bill, the domain registrar bill, etc.
There should be a way for a running instance of some kind of peer software on your device to announce its presence to the network of other instances of the same, with a unique name or at least a unique address of some kind. It would be nice if the unique identifier is something one gets to keep indefinitely, and ideally not pay for. A central registry of such identifiers seems like a backend that someone would have to pay for. The question is how purely peer-to-peer it can be. Maybe each node maintains a list of other nodes that it knows about, by unique identifier, and perhaps by "last known IP address." Perhaps whatever nodes happen to have static IP would become de facto clearinghouses of such quasi-DNS type data, but of course we'd want to minimize dependence on this feature to avoid that becoming a landlord/tenant relationship.
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